FreeMind 0.9.0: The New Features

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A great release is to come. We have many exciting new features: WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes, scripting, filter, attributes and many more. But all these new features still need a lot of testing and documentation. To start this, please have a look at the newest version here and tell us your opinions. Use this wiki page for documenting the new features. But: Don't use this version for productive maps. It is not stable enough! Attributes Quick Attribute creation select node Edit Attribute: Alt-F9 or, Rt-click>Edit attributes type in an Attribute name then add a value if desired edit with the Attribute Manager later if necessary Using Attribute Manager open the attribute manager with attribute icon on toolbar or, Tools>Attribute Manager Create Attribute Click the "Edit" button in the "All Attributes" row Type in your Attribute name, then press add Repeat to add multiple attributes Press "Close" to close the Attribute Edit dialog NOTE: This is also the place to delete Attributes Create Attribute values After adding Attributes, you should see them listed under the "Attributes" column heading Click on the "Edit" button in the row of your new Attribute and add the values type the value name, then press "Add" It's a good idea to add a blank value to the list. It helps when assigning attributes later Close the Attribute value dialog by pressing the "Close button" NOTE: this is the place to delete Attribute values Every Attribute can have multiple values eg. I use an Attribute called "Staff" and the values are the staff person's name eg. I use an Attribute called "Priority" and the values are #'s 1 to 5 Assign Attributes to nodes assigning only a few nodes Choose the node, press Alt-F9 or, Rt-Click the node and choose "Edit Attributes" assigning many nodes got to: Tools>"Assign attributes..." choose "Selected Nodes" or "Visible Nodes" from the drop down list, choose the Attribute you want to assign. (Here it helps when there's a blank value. You can assign an Attribute to all nodes needing it, and then set the value later, on a node by node basis) press the "Add" button to assign the Attribute to the node/s add more than one attribute to a node if necessary delete attributes from multiple nodes with this dialog Viewing/Hiding Attributes to see an icon on nodes with attributes Tools>Preferences>Appearance>Show icon for attributes show all attributes Alt-s or, View>Attributes>Show all attributes show no attributes Alt-h or, View>Attributes>Show no attributes show selected attributes in the Attribute Manager, select desired Attributes in the "Selected Visible" column then, View>Attributes>Show selected Attributes optimize the width of the Attribute/value table Rt-click on the Attribute and choose optimal width Filter Create filters to view and print the data more effectively click on the little funnel to the left of the zoom size toggles on and off default values are useful no filtering Currently Selected Nodes create filter for one Attribute to the right of the filter status, click "Edit" in the drop down menu at the top right, select your attribute the expression drop changes to "exists" press "Add", then "OK" at the bottom all nodes with the selected Attribute will be shown create filter for one Attribute and its value after step two above select the second drop down where "exists" is showing choose "Is equal to". Your values should now be available in the third drop down press "Add", then OK use multiple filters at once create two filter sets by the method above select the filter sets you want Shift-click for multiple, continuous sets Ctrl-click for non-contiguous selection press the "and" button on the right => a new set is created which combines your selected sets filter on an icon add an icon to a node by highlighting the node, click on the icon on the left or Rt-click>Icons in the filtering "edit" dialog, choose "Icon" in the drop-down list at the top left the second drop-down grays out, and the third contains the list of currently used icons click "Add" user feedback WYSIWYG-Editing for nodes and notes To Do Scripting via Groovy to do About Groovy For people unfamiliar with Groovy scripting, it's home page, an introduction, a review on slashdot. How to get started to do The rest new features To Do