Automatic Visio drawing
using database information
Visio + Sql Server, Access
Your requirements
You have to manage a lot of Visio diagrams
that display how your systems are organized. You
appreciate Visio's features for Web export. You would like to
take advantage of Visio's quality and build upon its
possibilities.
Your pain
- The diagrams are done manually. The maintenance is a
chore. Errors are numerous and require manual redraw. You
need time to assure this service. Because time is lacking,
diagrams are not updated and users grumble...
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Solution
With Amarco you can produce automatically Visio drawings with
information stored in a SQL Server 2000 database or Microsoft Access
database. You can use your preferred Visio shapes for best communication
impact. You may export the system drawings as web pages with
drill up, drill down navigation capability.
But as you store this information in the database, you can now
publish automatically your diagrams as Web pages, with navigation links
and associated information pages.
Amarco Cartography acts as a Visio diagram manager that helps you
manage all your diagrams and maintain them for you.
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Search diagrams in database |
Diagrams found |
You can use your preferred Visio shapes for the diagrams. Amarco will
use them during the automatic draw phase.
Amarco can draw automatically your diagrams and keep
them up to date when you add / delete connections. You can see
a dynamic demonstration of this
process.
Underline interface type
The interface color may be chosen according to their classification
criteria. The associated legend is also generated automatically.
You may also display dynamically the traffic in your network,
example here!
Also, here an automatically
generated functional analysis diagram. |