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The new Validation API enables businesses to write custom validation rules for their
own purposes.
Microsoft Visio 2010 Premium edition provides built-in rule sets for flowcharts,
BPMN diagrams and SharePoint Designer Workflows. However, it does not provide a
rule set developer interface for the analyzing, amending or creating rules. This
Rules Tools add-in fills this gap by providing an extra group in the Process tab
in Visio 2010 that allows users to analyze existing rules, display issues, and to
export/import rule sets.
It is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the particular thousand
words understood by each individual are more likely to be the same if the picture
was created with commonly available rules. The structured diagramming features and
Validation API in Visio 2010 Premium enable business diagramming rules to be developed,
reviewed and deployed. The first diagramming types to have these rules applied to
are process flowcharts, reminiscent of the vertical markets attacked by the first
versions of Visio itself, but these rules can and will be extended beyond this discipline
Key Benefits
- Review existing rule sets
- Create, update or delete rules
- Analyze and annotate issues
- Export/import rule sets to/from XML
- Standard and developer mode