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Is there a way to store a Visio drawing in a SharePoint (2010) site column?
I’m working on a solution to automate a document (MS Word) assembly, using SharePoint List data. One such data type is Visio. Is there a way to store Visio in a List, without storing it inside a Word document, which would then need to be retrieved and parsed in order to extract the Visio?
While you can’t store it in a column per-se, you do have a few options:
The most simple is to create a document library and let each drawing be a document, and add any needed columns to the list definition or content type for your library.
If that won’t work, typically because you would need to have a parent (like a word document as you mentioned) – many lists have the Attachments field which you could use to attach an arbitrary number of drawings (or other files) to.
You could also come up with a parent-child relationship using multiple libraries that may prove the most flexible and robust of all the solutions. You can define a column on the child list that is a lookup back to the parent list (probably the ID column would be a good choice if it is all automated).