I cannot reference a different Visio shape Master on the shapesheet

Question

I'm attempting to create a custom stencil, and one of the ways I want to make developing this easier is to have children reference the dimensions of parent stencils (parametric design).

In the below pictures I'm showing the values I want to refer to on the parent, as well as confirming the Shape Name is Shape.7.

But when I attempt to refer to it on the child shape, I'm told I have an invalid formula, even though the autocompletion in Visio is listing the available fields for me which appears to confirm I'm referencing it correctly:

In this example stencil I have two shapes, Parent and Child. This is the stencil I used to create the screenshots above. I simply want the Child shape to inherit constant values from the Parent shape rather than copying them, so that modifying the parent would automatically update the child.

Answer 1

Instead of Shape.7 I think you need to use the Sheet name e.g. Sheet.5 or similar. =Masters[Flip-flop]!Sheet.5!Height