When using a connector between shapes the connection automatically snaps to the center of the shape (a box pops up indicating "snap to shape". There does not appear to be any way to disable this snapping other than entirely disabling snap.

I want to be able to leave other snapping enabled (e.g. snap to grid) and not have the snap automatically jump to the shape. There are options to disable other individual snapping options but not this one.

This worked fine in previous versions of Visio and makes Visio almost unusable for my application. Adding the ability to enable or disable every type of glue and snap instead of a limited subset seems like a very useful feature.

I found that the "glue type" for the individual connector shape can be modified to disable the behavior for that connector. While this works, it is very time consuming for something that used to be very simple in previous Visio versions (e.g. 2007).

Lately, every shape you hover over triggers a pop-up message “Ctrl + Click to follow link”, even though there is not a link associated to a shape.

In the past, when you hovered over a shape, there would be no pop out unless there were actually hyperlinks. You would just need to click on a shape to open a hyperlink (if there was one). Now, in addition to the constant pop-up stated above, users need to click Ctrl to open a link.

We have seen this situation appear and then disappear, which is confusing to end users and an ongoing nuisance (When is a link actually applied to a shape? When to use Ctrl to open something?)

The following is taken from https://www.omg.org/dmn/

DMN is a modeling language and notation for the precise specification of business decisions and business rules. DMN is easily readable by the different types of people involved in decision management. These include: business people who specify the rules and monitor their application; business analysts.

DMN is designed to work alongside BPMN and/or CMMN, providing a mechanism to model the decision-making associated with processes and cases. While BPMN, CMMN and DMN can be used independently, they were carefully designed to be complementary. Indeed, many organizations require a combination of process models for their prescriptive workflows, case models for their reactive activities, and decision models for their more complex, multi-criteria business rules. Those organizations will benefit from using the three standards in combination, selecting which one is most appropriate to each type of activity modeling. This is why BPMN, CMMN and DMN really constitute the “triple crown” of process improvement standards.

Using DMN to model your organizational decision-making will:

help all stakeholders understand a complex domain of decision-making using easily readable diagrams
provide a natural basis for discussion and agreement on the scope and nature of business decision-making
reduce the effort and risk of decision automation projects through graphical decomposition of requirements
allow business rules to be defined simply and reliably in unambiguous decision tables
simplify development of decisioning systems using specifications that may be automatically validated and executed
provide a structured context for the development and management of predictive analytic models
enable the development of a library of reusable decision-making components.

I would like to pick a line or arc and drag it. While I am dragging it, contour line would be created in staggering intervals. so, the person using this would drag a line to the center of what would be cylinder or curved surface and the would see 3 lines or arcs ghost out from the copied line. The interval of the lines would be 1 unit of distance then the 2nd line would be 2 units, the 3rd would be 4 units and there would be 7 units between the last line and the final pick point. The lines would also be slightly smaller in thickness than the line copied. No other drawing software does this that I know of.

I frequently use Visio to create architecture diagrams for computer systems. These diagrams often have multiple levels to them and it would be helpful for Visio to represent these. For example, I'll often use a cloud shape to represent Azure or AWS and then I put shapes within it to represent services they're running. The problem is that this often leads to a busy drawing that's difficult to consume.

It would be helpful to be able to zoom in to the cloud shape and place the shapes for services within it, similar to how one can zoom in and out of a computer-based map.

In this way, a user looking at the drawing could zoom in and out of each component to see the detail underneath. I'm thinking Visio would need some indication that content is available at levels above and below the level the user is looking at.