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| Overview MindView 4 Business is a highly professional Mind Mapping tool that helps you increase productivity with powerful integration to MS Office. MindView 4 Business is ideal for simplifying project planning and includes a Gantt chart. |
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| Technical Specifications Brainstorming MatchWare MindView's brainstorming mode is an invaluable tool for capturing the bursts of inspiration that emerge during group planning meetings. This powerful, yet easy-to-use program lets you instantly capture those ideas without disrupting the brainstorming process to define their precise wording or positioning. Once all the ideas are collected, simply click and drag the branches and sub-branches to move them to the appropriate position. Focus on a particular set of branches by applying a filter or temporarily collapsing other branches and add comments, pictures and formatted text notes at any time to illustrate or expand on specific points. Finally, MindView lets you highlight conceptual relationships between two or more branches by creating visual connections between them. Multimedia MatchWare MindView's Multimedia Catalog contains 1500 high quality clipart illustrations created specifically for business and education use, as well as numerous root shapes and map styles. Simply use the keyword-based search tool to find the elements you need and drop them onto your workspace. You can also use the catalog to store and view your own elements. In addition to the Multimedia Catalog, MindView contains a palette of icons, which you can place on the branches of your Mind Map to draw attention or illustrate a particular idea. Calculation MindView 4 Business Edition allows you to add numeric values to the branches of your Mind Map, for example sales numbers, costs, exchange rates and so on, and also formulas to carry out calculations on the values. Built-in functions allow you to display values automatically rolled up from lower sub-branches to higher ones. If for instance you want to create a Mind Map to consolidate the sales figures coming from different geographical regions, you can use the built in function SUM to add up values entered on the outermost sub-branches (the regions), providing a grand total on the root and sub-totals on intermediate branches. To enter values, you use the Calculation panel, conveniently accessed from a tab on the right of the workspace. External resources In addition to text notes, MatchWare MindView lets you attach any number of external resources to the branches of your map, including documents, pictures, videos, sounds, hyperlinks, Flash® animations and more. Hyperlinks can be used to connect to websites, folders, or files such as Excel or PDF documents. All these attached resources are easily viewed by simply clicking their names in the object list associated with the branch. Use the Pack & Go feature to save your Mind Map with all its attachments and share it with other users. Templates MatchWare MindView includes over 80 business and educational templates, supported by over one thousand high quality clipart images. Once you have created your Mind Map using one of these templates, you can easily tailor it to meet your specific needs. Ideas and suggestions for expansion are provided in various notes and pop-up comments. To help you get started, MatchWare MindView Business Edition also includes many ready-made project plans for common business activities, such as organizing a tradeshow, producing a publication, launching a product, etc. for use in the Gantt view. You can use these ready-made plans for training purposes or as a basis for your own project plans. Multi-Maps MatchWare MindView lets you link several documents by creating connections between relevant branches. Clicking the branch connection from the source document automatically opens the linked map in the target document. You can also detach a branch to create a second Mind Map in the same workspace or in a new document. Printing Print your maps 'fit to page' or spread them horizontally and/or vertically over multiple pages for a better overview or to display as a poster. This feature is particularly useful for timelines and Gantt schedules. Mind Map View The Mind Map view represents the map with the root in the centre and the main branches radiating from it in a clockwise direction. This view works especially well in the brainstorming mode, when you want to collect ideas related to your theme without worrying about analyzing or organizing them at that stage. Top Down View This shows your map as a hierarchical pyramid, with the root at the top, the main branches underneath, the sub-branches below the main branches, and so on. Use it to represent structured data that needs to be viewed in a hierarchical manner, i.e. from the highest to the lowest levels. Left / Right View This view represents your map as a sequential list of topics placed either on the right or left of the root (Right view or Left view). This view is a good option when you need to present structured data in list form (e.g. a list of steps) and want to fully explore each point in the list before moving to the next point. Outline View Use this view to represent your map as a linear hierarchical list, which you can expand and collapse as required. The Outline view allows easy navigation through the document from top to bottom and provides another tool for brainstorming. It is also a convenient method of entering and viewing task information related to the branches of your map (see Task Management below). Timeline View Use the Timeline view to display events such as company history, execution of marketing strategies, project plans and historical data. Simply insert dates or times on your branches and switch to the Timeline view to see your information displayed along a horizontal time axis. The different timescales available (standard, daily, weekly, historic and geological) let you represent a variety of time-related events. Zoom in or out, expand or contract the timeline scale, or condense empty stretches of the timeline by inserting break marks. You can then export your timeline as an interactive HTML site, include it in a visual presentation, or print it out as a poster! Gantt View - Business Edition Only The MatchWare MindView Gantt view, specific to the Business Edition, is a specialized view dedicated to the creation, editing and management of project plans according to the rules of project management. The view has two parts: an Outline on the left, representing the project as a hierarchical list of tasks, and a fully dynamic Gantt chart on the right, showing the tasks as horizontal bars arranged against a calendar display background. MatchWare MindView Business Edition also lets you export your project plans to Microsoft® Project for further development or import existing Microsoft Project plans into the Gantt view directly from Microsoft Project or via the Microsoft Project XML format. Task information - Business Edition Only MatchWare MindView lets you add task information to the branches of your Mind Maps in order to create simple task lists or complete projects of interrelated tasks. A special task panel lets you add data such as start and end dates, resources, priority and completion levels to any branch during initial brainstorming or at any point in the project planning process. You can also switch to the Outline view to enter the task data directly into the cells associated with each branch. Once completed, you can export your task lists to Microsoft Outlook or convert them to distinct individual projects for further development in the Gantt view. Integration with Microsoft Outlook - Business Edition Only As mentioned above, MatchWare MindView Business Edition lets you export your task lists to the task folder of your choice in Microsoft Outlook. You can also import task lists from Microsoft Outlook and use MindView to synchronize the two versions of your task list stored in Outlook and in MindView. Gantt chart - Business Edition Only Start by brainstorming your tasks, then allocate resources and establish priorities using the intuitive Mind Map interface. At that stage, switch to the Gantt view to fine-tune your project planning using the popular Gantt chart interface and take advantage of all of the standard project management features. Of course, you can also build complete projects from scratch in the Gantt view. MatchWare MindView Business lets you easily export your MindView project schedules to Microsoft® Project. Conversely, you can import project plans developed in Microsoft® Project into MindView to make full use of MindView's innovative brainstorming features. Microsoft® Excel – Export and Import - Business Edition Only With MindView 4 Business Edition you can export your Mind Map as a Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet. You can for instance create a Mind Map to brainstorm a budget forecast, consolidate it by using the Calculation panel to enter the actual sales figures, and then export the map as an Excel spreadsheet to perform a more detailed analysis of your figures in Excel. Microsoft® Outlook – Export, Import & Synchronization - Business Edition Only As mentioned above, MatchWare MindView Business Edition lets you export your task lists to the task folder of your choice in Microsoft Outlook. You can also import task lists from Microsoft Outlook and use MindView to synchronize the versions of the task list stored in Outlook and in MindView. Microsoft® Project – Export and Import - Business Edition Only MatchWare MindView Business Edition lets you create, refine and manage project plans from start to finish in its dedicated, dynamic Gantt view. You can also export your project plans to Microsoft Project for further expansion, if necessary, either directly in Microsoft Project's .mpp format or via Microsoft Project's XML format. Conversely, you can import existing Microsoft Project plans into the Gantt view directly from Microsoft Project or via Microsoft Project's XML format. This is particularly useful if you want to review the structure of your plans using the Mind Mapping technique or view your plans as timelines. MatchWare Mediator – Export and Import Export to MatchWare Mediator to create interactive Flash® and CD-ROM presentations. All attached files are included in the export. Use the Export Wizard to select professionally designed templates or use the 'one click' export option. You can also re-import your Mediator presentation into MindView, including any pages added in Mediator. The branch structure and layout of your original Mind Map is preserved wherever possible. Elements specific to Mediator (such as events and actions) are also preserved when re-exporting the Mind Map to Mediator. You can, of course, import original Mediator presentations into MindView. |
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