[Sigia-l] Graphical IA generation

[Judith.A.Blankman at wellsfargo.com]

Visio has a wizard feature in the Org Chart templates (vs. other
templates) where you can import from Excel. You have to set up the
spreadsheet in a "reports to" format, which can be difficult with a
large sitemap. It's a bit kludgy, but it works, just a bit of trial and
error to organize. For example, I'll put the spreadsheet in a left to
right, top to bottom logical order, but the sitemap ends up in reverse
order, that kind of thing.

Still it's faster than typing it all out and creating boxes each time.

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Judith Blankman |  Sr. Information Architect 
Wells Fargo Corporate HR | Team Member Marketing
415.371.6972
judith.a.blankman at wellsfargo.com
 
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From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Masterton
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:48 AM
To: Sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Graphical IA generation

Hi IAers,

Wondering if anyone has heard of a tool that generates a graphical  
depiction of an information architecture or site map based on some  
kind of input file such as XML or Excel.

I hate having to move widgets around and re-connect my IAs in visio or  
omni-graffle each time a client changes their mind (which is quite a  
bit!).

The idea being that even a tabbed text file can show a hierarchy but  
outputting that hierarchy to a nice to view format is more time  
consuming. This seems like a fairly simple programmatic challenge but  
I haven't seen a product that can do it.

Anyone know of one?

Thanks!

Chris.




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