MindMapApplication

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Application developed by the XWiki Development Team.
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MindMap Application

Application allowing to view, import and export MindMaps to and from wiki pages.

Once you install the application you can create pages that will automatically include a MindMap viewer for the first freemind attachment added to the page. You will then be allowed to import your MindMap in your Wiki and create Wiki pages for each mindmap node. You can also update your wiki from your MindMap (this will overwrite your wiki pages).

If you want to only create a sitemap from your Wiki, a simpler MindMap snippet is available.

How to use

Install the MindMap.xar and navigate to MindMap.WebHome. Follow the instructions there.

First you create a page using the "create MindMap page" form. This will automatically include the MindMap macros and the mindmaptools macro call.

You can right away upload a freemind mindmap. You should first download freemind from the freemind web site. Premium accounts on MindMeister also allow to create freemind mindmaps.

Automatically the macro will recognize the attached mindmap and show it in the page. It will also show a menu under the mindmap:

• View MindMap Wiki Home
• Update MindMap Wiki Pages
• Delete MindMap Wiki Pages

The first menu is not yet usefull, until you have created your MindMap. Click on "Update MindMap Wiki Pages" to create the Wiki Pages from the MindMap. When you do this will show the list of pages created. If you had created the MindMap before it will delete all related pages before (it does the same as "Delete MindMap Wiki Pages"). On importing the "notes" fields of MindMap will be imported as the Wiki page content.

Once your pages are created, under the action menu you will see the first two levels of your MindMap Wiki Pages shown, as well as a two actions menu allowing to recreate a new Freemind MindMap from the pages (this is usefull if you modify the pages). Two options are available:

• Create MindMap with Wiki Content: this will store the raw content of wiki pages in the "notes" field of the MindMap.
• Create MindMap wiki Rendered Content: this will store the rendered content of wiki pages in the "notes" field of the MindMap.

Example

The following screenshot shows the MindMap with actions available and the first two levels of Wiki Pages created by the MindMap import tool. The little red arrows show links added to the MindMap which point to Wiki pages.