Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Storing and Displaying Employee Information in Organization Charts

You can store custom property data with shapes in any Visio diagram. In organization charts, you can use custom property data for reports, reference, or as shape text in charts to store more descriptive detail about an employee. The default custom properties for organization chart shapes are Department, Telephone, Name, Title, and E-mail. By default, the Name and Title properties are shown in the shapes in a chart.

The other default custom properties are stored with the shapes but not shown in the chart. You can display them by clicking the Options command on the Organization Chart ...