Toggle Visio layers visibility in SharePoint 2013 services

Question

Hi,
We have a Visio diagram representing system topology. Systems are mapped to different processes that can be visualized  with Active X control buttons and some VB to toggle layers visibility. Works great in Visio.
Doesn't work in SharePoint.
I am posting that to Sharepoint 2013 but I am loosing the functionality.
Is it possible to achieve that with this approach?
If this is not supported is there another approach?

Answer 1

Hi Mike,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want the hyperlink of visio service to open in the same windows tab.
I create a rectangle with hyperlink  in a Visio document and  set the NewWindow property of the hyperlink to false using VB coding as below:
Public Sub NewWindow_Example()
  Dim vsoHyperlink As Visio.Hyperlink
  Set vsoHyperlink = ActivePage.DrawRectangle(0,0,5,5).AddHyperlink
  vsoHyperlink.Address = "http://www.microsoft.com/"
  vsoHyperlink.NewWindow = False
End Sub
However, this hyperlink opens in new tab in my SharePoint 2013 as your scenario. It is by default that SharePoint 2013 Visio Service deals with  the hyperlink of Visio document. There seams to be no approach that Microsoft Visio keep the same location
when it follows a hyperlink to open a Web page.
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff767738(v=office.15).aspx
Best Regards,
Wendy
Wendy Li
TechNet Community Support