Context-sensitivity

Introduction

For most VisioPS cmdlets you never need to identify the target of the operation.

For example, the Set-VisioText cmdlet works against the selected shapes in the active document. If no shapes are selected, then nothing happens.

Set-VisioText -Text "Hello World"

The ability for cmdlets to target the appropriate objects based on context dramatically simplifies automating Visio with VisioPS.

Overriding context sensitivity

Sometimes its more convenient to explicitly identify the targets of a cmdlet. Depending on the cmdlet, the following parameters will be available:

• -Documents

• -Pages

• -Shapes