Re: [WinMac] Cross platform business process mapping

John Nurick(j.nurick[at]dial.pipex.com)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:52:14 +0100

At 09:25 21/08/98 -0400, Philip Neukom wrote:
> Hi! I am looking for an easy way to move business process maps
>created in MacFlow to the Windows world. My clients typically use
>ABCFlowchart or Visio on Windows. I want to continue using my Powerbook
>for creating the business process maps, but need to provide my clients
>with electronic output that they can change or modify the process maps.
>
>1) Does anyone know a procedure to move MacFlow flow charts to either
>of these products. Saving the file as PICT is not useful because the
>process map becomes an image and all the objects lose their properties.
>2) If there isn't a way to move the process maps, is there a product
>that runs on a Mac that integrates with the above 2 products?

I tried recently to find a Mac app that integrated with or even matched the
functionality of Visio: nothing seemed to come close.

How well documented is the MacFlow file format (or how good are MacFlow's
macro language and export facilities)? If this will be a regular task it may
be worth writing an import routine in Visio's VBA.

Best wishes

John

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