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How do I Add a Visio Diagram to a Web Part in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Help: The following post will show users how to place a Visio diagram on a SharePoint 2010 site. This is a quick and easy way to customize SharePoint pages. 

• Click Edit

• Click Insert
• Click Web Part

• Click inside the web part you intend the Visio diagram to be placed

• Select Business Data
• Select Visio Web Access
• Click Add

The web part interface will now appear in the web part location you selected

You can do the next part either at the start of the project or at the end but you will need for the Visio Diagram to live within a list or a library somewhere. I created a list in the web part to the right of the Visio web part and uploaded my Visio Diagram to this list. I am uploading an Entity Relationship Diagram into the web part. This is an easy way to share a Visio Diagram on a SharePoint Implementation. First you have to make sure that the Visio Diagram is saved as a Web Drawing. This can be done by following the steps below:

• Open the Visio Diagram
• Click File
• Click Save As
• Save as file type: Web Drawing

Once the Visio is in the document library you can pull the URL by:

• Clicking drop down
• Send to
• Email a Link

Save that link we will need it in the next step

In the Visio web part

• Click “Click here to open the tool pane”
• Once the tool pane opens on the right enter the URL we stole from the email:

• Click Ok

The Visio Diagram will now appear in the web part:

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