Re: Dia for making Organization Charts

[Steffen Macke <sdteffen gmail com>]

Hi Knut,

> I wonder if there is a symbol library existing, or under development, that
> suits the making of Organization Charts?

Did you have a look at the "Flowchart" sheet? It might be sufficient to draw
Organisation Charts. If it is not, could you point to an example image that
displays the missing symbols?

> Is there a way I can generate a chart with standard rectangular boxes, from
> a list, for example made in excel?

Not that I know of. How do you reflect the organizational structure in Excel?
Again, an example (Excel sheet plus Diagram to be generated) would be helpful.

> I am using Windows XP platform, and often use word and excel in my work.
> Would it be possible to design functionality that allows copying Dia
> diagrams directly into Word or Excel and objects or pictures? And the other

Dia 0.97 supports copy and paste to Word. Did you try "Edit" -> "Copy Diagram"?

> way, could one include functionality that makes standard boxes with text
> when copying cells from Excel into Dia? A function that allows changing a
> selected number of objects into another type of object would also be very
> useful.

Feel free to enter feature requests to bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org

Regards,

Steffen