More documents

In addition to the manual, the further documents are provided.

You can access the following files via the menu Help > Open Documents directory:

  • Visum - Installation Manual

This document provides important information on the installation of Visum.

  • Release Notes

This document contains brief notes on changes, fixed bugs and new functionality included in the Visum service packs provided for download. Via the PTV homepage, new service packs are continuously provided for download.

Tip: Alternatively, you can open the Release Notes on the Visum Start page in the Support services section.
  • Visum - What's new

Here you can gain an overview of the program changes and new functions compared to the previous version.

  • Attribute.xlsx: This file stores the descriptions of all tables, attributes and relations which are used in Visum.
  • Overview of the origin of indicators
  • Overview of the availability of indicators
  • AssignmentMethods: Overview of input and output attributes of PrT assignments.

Further information can be found under Help > COM Help: The COM Help, which you open in the browser, contains introductory content on the Visum COM-API, the introduction to COM programming, the options for extending Visum using the COM interface, Visum examples, and a reference for the COM interface.

  • Description of the Visum COM interface

With the help of script files you have access to Visum data and functionality via the Component Object Model (COM) interface.

The COM reference contains the reference documentation for the COM application in English.

The document Introduction to the PTV Visum-COM API in English contains, among other things, an introduction to COM programming, the possibilities of extending Visum using the COM interface and Visum examples. Open the file from within the program via menu Help > Introduction to the Visum COM-API.

  • Reference of the Python objects

Here, you find the reference of all Python objects for scripting.