Visio Services Quick Guide: Using Visio with Sharepoint 2013 and Office 365

CHAPTER 3

Visio Data Tab

In this chapter, we'll see how Visio lets you bind your web drawings to real data.

To bind data to a data source in the Visio 2013 client, you use the options accessed by clicking on the Data tab of the ribbon (Figure 3-1). To enable all of the buttons that belong to this tab, you should have at least one diagram open.

Figure 3-1. Data tab in Visio 2013

Let’s understand what each button does in turn.

Link Data to Shapes

Link Data to Shapes is one of the ways you can connect a data source to a shape. You get a simple Data ...