Running Save as Web Page from the Command Line

The Save as Web Page feature is automatically installed with each Microsoft Office Visio 2007 product. It is installed as a Visio add-on that has the name "SaveAsWeb."

To run the Save as Web Page feature from the command-line interface, you call the SaveAsWeb add-on and use the desired command-line options.

You can choose either of the following techniques:

• Create a formula that uses the RUNADDONWARGS function in a shape's event section.

  You can do this in the ShapeSheet window without writing any code. For example, you could create a shape and insert a call to RUNADDONWARGS in the shape's double-click event. A user would need only to double-click the shape to create a Web page from the drawing. You can also use Automation to set formulas by using the Formula property of the Cell object of the Visio object model.

  For details about the RUNADDONWARGS function, Cell object, or Formula property, see the Visio Developer Reference (on the Help menu, click Developer Reference).

  For more details about using the RUNADDONWARGS function with Save as Web Page, see "Using the RUNADDONWARGS function" later in this topic.

• Write a Microsoft Visual Basic macro in Visio (or write code in a separate component) that launches the SaveAsWeb add-on by using the Visio Automation object model. You can use the Run method of the Addon object and pass the command-line parameters to specify the properties of the Web page.

  Using this technique may mean that you would write less code than if you used the Save as Web Page object model to specify parameters, but using the Run method requires familiarity with command-line parameters.

  For details about the Addon object or Run method, see the Visio Developer Reference (on the Help menu, click Developer Reference).

  For more details about using the Run method to call Save as Web Page, see "Calling the Run method of the SaveAsWeb add-on" later in this topic.

Save as Web Page command-line options

The format for command-line parameters is as follows: /option=value

For example, the following code sets the target parameter: /target=c:\temp\mypage.htm

The following table lists the command-line options for the Save as Web Page command-line interface. The "Method/Property name" column lists the corresponding method or property in the object model. For details about a particular option, see the corresponding method or property topic in this reference.

1 For the text/number value type, the user may specify text such as vml for the output type, or a number (for example, 1) representing the index of this output type. Each output type will have its own unique index. For screenres, text and number values are defined by the VISWEB_DISP_RES enumeration.

Using the RUNADDONWARGS function

The following shows one way to use the RUNADDONWARGS function to call the SaveAsWeb add-on.

  =RUNADDONWARGS("SaveAsWeb","/target=c:\temp\mypage.htm /quiet /prop /startpage=1 /endpage=3 /altformat /priformat=vml /secformat=jpg /openbrowser")

A scenario previously mentioned in this topic described a user being able to merely double-click a shape in a drawing to produce a Web page for that drawing. To demonstrate this, you can place the previous formula in the EventDblClick cell of the Events section in the ShapeSheet window of any shape on your drawing page. (To open the ShapeSheet window, select a shape in the drawing window, and then on the Window menu, click Show ShapeSheet.) After the formula is entered in the ShapeSheet cell, you can double-click that shape in the drawing window to launch the Save as Web Page feature.

For more information about the RUNADDONWARGS function, the EventDblClick cell, and the Events section, see the Microsoft Visio Developer Reference (on the Help menu, click Developer Reference).

Calling the Run method of the SaveAsWeb add-on

The Save as Web Page feature is installed as a Visio add-on called SaveAsWeb. To get a reference to this add-on, use the Addons collection of the Visio Application object.

The following example shows how to run the SaveAsWeb add-on by passing command-line parameters to the Run method of the Addon object.

In this example, the code that launches the add-on is contained in an event handler for the DocumentSaved event. The QuietMode property is set to True so that the Save as Web Page dialog boxes are not displayed in the user interface.

  Private Sub Document_DocumentSaved(ByVal Document As IVDocument) 
    Application.Addons("SaveAsWeb").Run "/quiet=True /target=C:\temp\test.htm" 
End Sub

For more information about the Addons collection, the Application and Addon objects and the DocumentSaved event, see the Microsoft Office Visio Automation Reference (on the Help menu, click Developer Reference).