A new Mindjet Labs site
This blog has served its purpose but will now be retired.
You can now find all Mindjet Labs blogs on the new
Mindjet Labs site:
Michael S. Scherotter
Map Explorer Now Supports Ink
I just added ink support to the
Map Explorer Add-in that I built last month after
Jason Dorko posted that it did not support ink in topics.
Map Notes from Mix06
Here is my map posted to date for my Mix06 notes using MindManager
Heading to Mix06!
I have just made plans to go to
Mix06 in Las Vegas next month! I am excited to learn about the next generation of cool stuff, but my primary goal will be to
meet people from companies implementing cool Web Services.Through my work in the Mindjet Labs, I have found
ways for MindManager to consume and interact with web services. If your company makes a web service and you want to get it in front of 750,000 users while they are brainstorming, planning, and running business processes,
meet me there!
Visual Mind to MindManager
A customer of ours asked us how to get data from Visual Mind to MindManager. I went to the Visual Mind website and downloaded their free trial software, created a simple map and selected the file save option to save the file as XML.
As you may know, MindManager X5 and 6 are based on XML and transforming one XML format to another XML format is a trivial exercise (for me) using XSLT. The basic requirement is that the input XML be well-formed. This transformation can happen automatically during file opening and saving in MindManager X5 Pro and MindManager Pro 6 if you have installed additional inbound and oubound transformations.
The problem that I ran into was that the XML produced by Visual Mind is not well-formed so it could not be transformed using XSLT. You can easily see the error if you open the Visual Mind XML in Internet Explorer. If you are a Visual Mind customer (strangely we don't have any at Mindjet). Tell them about this problem and maybe they can fix it.
Michael
.Net 2.0 Growing Pains
Now that Microsoft has released the .Net framework 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005, we have noticed some good things and some bad things:
The Good:Once you install the .Net framework 2.0, the Research Accelerator works with Web Proxy Servers. It did not with 1.1.
The Bad:Once you install the .Net framework 2.0, the Salesforce.com Accelerator will start exhibiting errors when refreshing building and refreshing maps. We will fix this but in the meantime, the Salesforce.com Accelerator is incompatible with .Net framework 2.0.
Spoke at Government User Group Meeting
Last week, I went to Washington D.C. to speak at the first session of the MindManager Government User Group. I talked about all of the different solutions available on the Mindjet Labs and how MindManager can be seen as a great platform in addition to how everyone already sees MindManager a great productivity platform. The response was very good. Email
labs@mindjet.com if you want me to come speak at your event.
Michael S. Scherotter
