Re: Visio to Oracle Designer Conversion

Just a thought...

In the dim and distant past I seem to remember Visio claiming that you could generate a database from one of their diagrams. If that is the case, then you could take the SQL CREATE TABLE script and reverse engineer that into Designer.

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A Crowther


In article <3A2A94CD.93188C5F_at_home.nl>,
  Frank van Bortel <fbortel_at_home.nl> wrote:


> Don't know about the Visio repository, but if the number of objects

> was large enough to allow some programming time, I'd read from the

> Visio repository (assuming it's has an API), and write to Designer's

> repository (which has an open, documented API).

> Graphic copies don't mean a thing - any diagram in Designer is

> an representation of what's in the repository, not the other way

 around.


> So you cannot build your Designer repository on graphics. Besides,

 there


> would without any doubt be differences in meaning for similar shapes

> between the two product.

>

> Tim Fitzpatrick wrote:

>

> > Apologies if this has come up before - I'm new to this group.

> >

> > Does anyone know if it's possible to convert Visio diagrams and

 objects


> > into Designer?

> >

> > I understand that the latest versions of Visio have a repository

 behind


> > them.

> >

> > Are there tools available that allow one to extract the information

 out


> > of Visio and squirt it into Designer as repository objects? Failing

> > that, has anyone tried to do it manually?

> >

> > Any advice or experience would be appreciated.

> >

> > Regards,

> >

> > Tim

> >

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> > Before you buy.

>

> --

> Gtrz,

>

> Frank van Bortel

>

>


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