Roadmap: Publish Visio drawings to a SharePoint site

If you have to share your Visio drawing with other people who do not have Visio, you can publish your Visio drawing to a SharePoint site by using Visio Services. This is ideal when you have to share a Visio drawing with a large organization.

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Requirements for Visio Services

Step 1: Save the drawing as a .vdw file

Step 2: View the drawing on the SharePoint site

Step 3: Edit and republish the Visio drawing

Requirements for Visio Services

Visio Graphic Services are available only on SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Client Access License (ECAL) and must be deployed, provisioned, and enabled in order to be used.

In addition, you must have Microsoft Visio Professional 2010 or Microsoft Visio Premium 2010 in order to save to SharePoint.

For more information about what you must do to enable Visio Services on a SharePoint site, see Visio Graphics Service administration.

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Step 1: Save the drawing as a .vdw file

1. In Visio, click File, and then click Save & Send.

2. Under Save & Send, click Save to SharePoint.

3. Under File Types, click Web Drawing (*.vdw), and then click Save As.

4. In the Save As dialog box, do the following:

   • In the Address bar, browse to the SharePoint site that you want to publish your drawing to, and then click Go.

   • In the File name box, type the name that you want to use for your Web drawing.

   • If you want to see the Web drawing in your browser after it is published, select the Automatically view files in browser check box.

   • To specify which pages to publish and which data sources to use, click Options, and then in the Publish Settings dialog box, select the pages and data sources that you want.

5. Click Save.

For more information about how to save a drawing as a .vdw file, see Save diagrams to SharePoint as Web drawings.

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Step 2: View the drawing on the SharePoint site

1. In your Internet browser, go to the SharePoint library where the drawing is published.

2. In the SharePoint library, select the Visio Web drawing.

3. Click the arrow next to the Visio Web drawing, and then click View in Web Browser.

For more information about how to view a Visio Web drawing in a SharePoint site, see View Visio diagrams in a SharePoint library.

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Step 3: Edit and republish the Visio drawing

1. In your Internet browser, go to the SharePoint library where the drawing is published.

2. In the SharePoint library, select the Visio Web drawing.

3. Click the arrow next to the Visio Web drawing, and then click View in Web Browser.

4. With the Web drawing open in the browser, click Open in Visio.

5. When you have finished making changes to the diagram, on the File tab, click Save.
   Visio automatically saves and republishes the Web drawing to the SharePoint site.

For more information about how to open a Visio Web drawing from a SharePoint site, see View Visio diagrams in a SharePoint library.

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