From: AD Crowther Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: Visio to Oracle Designer Conversion Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:42:59 GMT Organization: Deja.com Lines: 65 Message-ID: <915kii$kjs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <8vdqkr$bl9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A2A94CD.93188C5F@home.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.2.6.140 X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Dec 12 16:42:59 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x60.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 212.2.6.140 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDacrowther 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. -- A Crowther In article <3A2A94CD.93188C5F@home.nl>, Frank van Bortel 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 > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > Before you buy. > > -- > Gtrz, > > Frank van Bortel > > -- -- Anne Crowther mailto:acrowther@my-deja.com Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/