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Creating Map in Outline View
Creating the map in the Outline View.
ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to display your map in the Outline View. You can choose whether to display on the screen only your map, only an outline or both views simultaneously using the View / Map Only (Outline Only ) and View / Map and Outline menu commands, or keyboard shortcuts F3 and Shift + F3 accordingly.
For clarity in this lesson let us select a simultaneous displaying of the map and the outline views.
Now we are going to create a map in the Outline View. In the outline view all hierarchy of the topics is displayed in the form of a text list.
Just about all actions that are applicable for the Map View, can be applied for the Outline View.
All actions made in the Outline View are displayed simultaneously in the map view, and vice versa.
In the Outline View you can do the same actions with topics, as you could in the map view: add, delete, change the text, font, etc.
We are now going to name the main idea of our map "Conference Report". For text editing:
- We switch to the editing mode by selecting the main idea and starting to type our new text or by pressing the F2 button and typing the new text.
- After the text is entered you will exit the editing mode by clicking your mouse outside the text line, or by pressing the Enter or F2 key again.
Now we are going to add additional main topics and subtopics in our map using the Insert topic  and Insert subtopic  buttons on the Topic Management toolbar.
Now we are going to change the structure of the map by using the following buttons on the Topic Management toolbar:
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Outdent item (one level closer to the root) |
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Indent item (one level deeper) |
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Move item to the previous position (one line up) |
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Move item to the next position (one line down) |
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The Outline View allows you to add floating topics and callouts using the Floating topic  and Callout topic  buttons on the Topic Management toolbar.
Now we are going to add a floating topic "Other" and callout "It's important" to the topic Who needs ConceptDraw?:
You can also add symbols, hyperlinks, text notes, assign task info to the topics by selecting them in the Outline View and using the Symbols, Hyperlink, Note, Task Info floating dialogs. After making these changes the corresponding columns in Outline View will appear with symbols or icons  ,  ,  indicating the additions that were made to the topic .
Next we are going to use the numeric symbols to indicate the order in which events happened. By using the numeric symbols we end up with the result seen in the following mind map:
ConceptDraw MINDMAP also allows you to number the events using the Auto Numeration  tool on the Map Management toolbar or the Map / Auto Numeration menu command.
The Outline View as well as the Map View allows you to show / hide the topic levels of the map using the Show / Hide Topic Levels  button on the Map Management toolbar or icons  and  near the topics. Now we are going to hide topics to level 2.
The bottom line:
- ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you to work with a map in the map view or outline view separately or simultaneously.
- In the Outline View it's easy to edit the structure of the mind map, add symbols and text notes, assign hyperlinks.
- Practically all actions for map view and for outline view are identical.
- All changes are simultaneously marked in the both views of the map.
- Both the mind map and outline views permit you to hide and display elements of the mind map structure, and change the level of detail. This can be a useful to present the document in a more or less detailed form.
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