Use Visio Service in SharePoint 2010

Visio service in sharepoint is useful to see visio drawing and graphs in your browser only. But unless you have gone through the steps, it might not be all that obvious.

The requirements for this is that you must have both SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and Visio 2010.

Step 1 - Turn on Visio Services

Go to --> Site Actions --> Site Settings.
Then click "Manage site features".

If your SharePoint Server Enterprise Site features are not activated, click the Activate button.

Here is what it should look like:

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Step 2 - Configuring the document library.

Now, navigate to a document library where you would like to publish the Visio for users to view in a web browser. Go to the List settings and click Advanced Settings.

Set the Opening Documents in the Browser option to Open in the browser.

Step 3 - Publishing a Visio 2010 document

After creating your Visio document, select Save As from the File menu.

 

In the File name box, paste the URL of the site where you library is.

Navigate to the library (double click).

Give your file the desired name.
IMPORTANT: From the Save as type: dropdown, choose Web Drawing. Then press Enter or click Save.

 





















Here's what the Visio looks like in a web browser.

 And Done..!! you have successfully configured Visio service in SharePoint 2010

The Unattended Service Account Application ID is not specified or has an invalid value.

This error showed up on the Monitoring > Health Analyzer of my SharePoint 2010 VM.   Apparently after using the wizard to create a new farm, you must double back to supply Visio Services with user credentials for remote data connections.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/thread/559f72a4-d9ca-4004-b5ca-a0fa6dbad51f was a helpful reference on the steps and below are screenshots.

Steps Taken:

1. Open Health Analyzer and view details
2. Manage the Visio Graphics Service (SA) and confirm Application ID is empty.
3. Manage the Secure Store Service (SA) and Generate New Key
4. Create a New Target Application
5. Provide a unique ID, name, and contact email. Select Group Type.
6. Accept default and just click Next
7. Provide a user name for both fields.  I used “DEMOAdmin” as that is the only user on this machine. Click OK.
8. Enter the Target Application ID back on the Visio Graphics Service (SA) page and click OK.
9. Go to the Health Analyzer rule, open it and click Reanalyze Now, then you should be ready to go.

 

 And you are done. :)

Go ahead check the error again and if error exists click on 'Reanalyze now' to allow sharepoint to check error again and hurray warning/error gone.

Regards,

Viral Shah