get custom properties from shape a to shape b within a master shape

[Daryll Donais]

I am new to Visio. I have made a master shape (Cisco Switch) which contains multiple shapes 24 of them are each ethernet port. What I want to do is in the shape data for the main shape have each port listed and populated with what is connected to it. Now here is where I am having trouble. Each of the ethernet ports have their own shape data. I would like to copy the data from the main shape data into the port shape data. I hope my formula below exaplains it better :)

(Ethernet Port Shape) Prop.Function.Value = (Main Shape) Prop.Port1.Value

And then in turn change the comment in the Ethernet Port Shape Data to be Prop.Function so when I hover over each ethernet port it would then display that data.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Daryll

[Paul Herber]

Post by Daryll Donais
I am new to Visio. I have made a master shape (Cisco Switch) which contains multiple shapes 24 of them are each ethernet port. What I want to do is in the shape data for the main shape have each port listed and populated with what is connected to it. Now here is where I am having trouble. Each of the ethernet ports have their own shape data. I would like to copy the data from the main shape data into the port shape data. I hope my formula below exaplains it better :)
(Ethernet Port Shape) Prop.Function.Value = (Main Shape) Prop.Port1.Value
And then in turn change the comment in the Ethernet Port Shape Data to be Prop.Function so when I hover over each ethernet port it would then display that data.
Any help would be appreciated.

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