SharePoint® 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer

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Creating and Configuring Visio Services Applications

Visio Services is a new service application in SharePoint 2010 designed for sharing Visio Web Drawings. Similar to other service applications in SharePoint 2010, Visio Services allows distribution and viewing of Visio Web Drawings in the browser, eliminating the need to have Microsoft Visio installed on the client machine. This means that one developer can create Visio documents and share them across the company. Visio Services also allows for interactivity to be included in drawings. By using the Visio Access Web Part, an end user will have the ability to navigate from one Visio drawing to the next through built-in links. Data refreshes are also handled by the Visio Services application, allowing for visual updates to be pushed down each time the Visio drawing is opened.

It is worth noting that only Visio Web Drawings are rendered in the browser by Visio Services. These are files that have the extension .vdw and can be uploaded to a document library or sent to the SharePoint site directly from Visio Professional Premium. Visio documents with the extension .vsd, which are standard drawings, are not supported to be shown in the browser by Visio Services. Web Drawings cannot be created using the Standard version of Microsoft Visio, only Premium and Professional.

CREATING A VISIO SERVICES APPLICATION

Before you are able to use all the features of Visio Services in your SharePoint site, you must create a Visio Services application. ...