Build Killer Charts
Posted 03/31/2006 at 7:14pm
| by John Brandon and Niko Coucouvanis
Step 3: Let It Flow
If you don't see the Inspector and Stencils windows, click the Inspect and Stencils icons in OmniGraffle's toolbar. In the Stencil window, select Business > Organizational Chart to load the org-chart stencils. Drag one into the window, where you're free to position and resize at will. To edit the placeholder text, simply double-click it and type away. To add connectors, select Basic from the Stencils pull-down menu; when you drag a connector into the chart, notice the red and greenish dots on the ends: Place the red dot on the parent in the relationship and the greenish dot on the child. You can further spiffificate the chart with the multifaceted Properties and Style Inspectors - but first, we'll show you a more formal way to chart the flow.
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Red rules: Connector hierarchy flows from the red dot to the greenish one.