Use Visio to draw a flowchart

During a meeting, I saw a colleague draw a similar swimming track chart as in PD while explaining the business process. However, there is a stage column on the left of the diagram, after communicating with him afterwards, I realized that his figure was "spelled out". That is to say, all the pictures were made by him in the drawing tool a little bit. I think he must have spent a lot of time.

In fact, this figure can be easily drawn in Visio, which is a "cross-function flowchart ".

Open Visio and select "new"-> "flowchart" and "cross-function flowchart". A prompt is displayed, indicating whether the horizontal or vertical flowchart is to be created. Here I select vertical.

In the number of zones, enter 3, select "including title bar", and click "OK" to display the following interface:

Assume that the business process to be processed here is: The Secretary prepares a document, which is reviewed by the Deputy Director of the Office. After the application is approved, the document is submitted to the Director for review. Any non-approved documents are submitted to the previous reviewer, therefore, after you drag the relevant graph in the Basic flowchart into this dashboard and process it according to the business flow, you can get:

In this way, the basic business process is displayed, and the above process is "review stage" by adding a "separator ". however, is this diagram a little ugly compared with power designer? It doesn't matter. You can use the "fill" function in each area in Visio to beautify the interface. right-click the element to be beautified and choose format> Fill to display the following interface:

You can select the appropriate color and pattern and transparency in the middle. Here I select a gradient pattern. click the application to see the effect. fill all the elements in sequence to get the final effect: