Show Diagram’s Project Management Properties in Diagram Info Shape

Diagram info shape provides a place to document and display diagram information in diagram. You can add diagram info shape to any diagram to document a diagram.

Project management properties are a set pre-defined properties, made for recording additional management-level information for all kinds of project data.

With diagram info shape, you can show in diagram the project management properties of that diagram, through the use of variables. In this article, you will see how to apply those variables.

Diagram info show showing the project management properties

To work with diagram info shape:

1. Select Diagram Infofrom diagram toolbar. Click on the diagram to create a diagram info shape.
   

   Select Diagram Info

2. To add a row in the diagram info shape, right click on the diagram info shape and select Add Item from the popup menu.
   

   Add itme to diagram info shape

3. Enter the name of item. Press Enter.
   

   Name the item

4. Enter the value. Now, you can display the value of specific project management property through the use of variable. For example, use ${pmStatus} to show the value of Statusproperty.
   

   To show Status property of diagram in diagram info shape

   Here is a list of available variables:

   Project management property	Variable
   Iteration	${pmIteration}
   Phase	${pmPhase}
   Discipline	${pmDiscipline}
   Version	${pmVersion}
   Priority	${pmPriority}
   Status	${pmStatus}
   Difficulty	${pmDifficulty}
   Author	${pmAuthor}
   Create date time	${pmCreateDateTime}
   Last modified	${pmLastModified}

    

   General property	Variable
   Name	${nickname}
   Documentation	${documentation}
   Teamwork Project Revision*	${teamworkRevision}

   * The Teamwork Project Revision property is supported starting from version 10 (build 20120720aw)

5. Press Enter to confirm editing.
   

   Property management property appears