It took me years of messing with the SHAPE SHEET and inserting fields to figure out how to customize all my icons and images and show any D-tools info I wanted with them. I'm sure there is an easier way but did it through trial & error, comparing my icons & shapes with generic D-tools shapes, and looking for tutorials.
I wish I could explain it to you but I'm afraid I would fail miserably since I think the process is fairly complicated, at least for me. I'll try and point you in the right direction and from there you'll have to figure it out yourself, sorry.
I keep my shapes in a stencil so my directions apply accordingly. Editing a shape directly on a page works the same way but without doing it in a stencil.
1. Open a stencil from the stencil tree, ie. Speakers stencil.
2. Right click the little green icon and select edit stencil.
3. Open icon for editing by double clicking it.
4. Select icon and in the Edit drop down select Open "name of icon"
5. Make a text line and name it whatever you want, ie. ComponentID
6. Select text and in the Insert drop down select Field
7. Choose Custom Formula
8. For the Custom Formula you have to enter the formula for whatever field you want to show up. In this example it is for ComponentID. The formula would be =Sheet.5!Prop.ComponentID
9. Close each window and when it asks if you want to update say yes.
These directions only apply to a icon that is not linked to D-tools. It gets even more tricky to get that to happen. But in order for it to work for your D-tools equipment you either setup the visio shape in the Component Properties, or if the shape is already on the page right click>D-tools Shape>Change.
I hope these directions help. If I've got something wrong or need to add more let me know and I can update it so others can use it as well. (Great now I'm giving out my secret stuff that I use to win D-tools contests!).
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