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Using Relationships
A mind map represents ideas, facts and objects as a hierarchy - ideas are organized from the general to the particular. However, the real life is not always so logical, and two concepts can be related even if one doesn't follow the other. For instance, there are food, medicines and alcoholic drinks. They aren't related on the mind map, though they may be related in the real life (one may need a medicine after drinking too much alcohol). You can show this relationship graphically in ConceptDraw MINDMAP.
ConceptDraw MINDMAP contains the Insert Relationship tool. It allows to connect two topics.
The pointer will look like  . When you move the mouse to a topic, it will highlight orange. Click and hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse to the topic you wish to connect to the first one. A dashed line will follow the pointer. Move the mouse to the topic so it will highlight orange, and release the mouse button. The two topics are now connected, and the connection will be kept even if you reposition the topics. To change the form of the connecting line, use the adjustment handles on it.
You can only insert relationship in the mind map view. Relationships are not reflected in the outline view.
By default, relationships have the view of the dashed line with arrows on the both ends.
To change the style of the relationship, it's color, weight and also the arrowhead styles of the ends, call the Line & Fill dialog by one of the following ways: |
 Menu |
Choose the Relationship... item from the Format menu. |
| Choose the Line&Fill Properties item from the View / Dialogs menu. |
 Context menu |
Choose the Line&Fill... item from the relation context menu. |
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Toolbar
button on the Topic Management toolbar.
button on the Main toolbar.
Keyboard