Export

ConceptDraw Project allows to export document to formats MindMap Outline, MS Project XML and ConceptDraw XML. This gives you a possibility to share the document with your colleagues working with other programs or keep working with ConceptDraw Project document in a one of the above mentioned program.

• Export to MindMap Outline
• Export to MS Project XML
• Export to ConceptDraw XML

Export to MindMap Outline

Use Export / MindMap Outline in menu File. Dialog Save As will appear. In this dialog indicate the path on your hard disk, where you want to save the document. Dialog Export to Outline will open.

In this dialog you can set indent type (Tabulation or Space) and indicate whether subprojects should be included to the exported document (option Include subprojects).

Task: Let’s export our document to MindMap Outline. Select tabulation as an indent type. As our project does not include any subprojects, then it doesn’t matter whether this option is activated.

Closing the dialog, do not forget to press OK to save settings.

Then this file can be opened in ConceptDraw MindMap, which will make it a mindmap of the following kind:

In ConceptDraw MindMap this document can be not only viewed but also edited, and then imported back to ConceptDraw Project.

Additional information: Outline format is a text format in which data is stored in accordance with the strict hierarchy and is divided by indents. This format allows to visualize such a document in accordance with data representation in this specific program. For instance, ConceptDraw MindMap basing on the document builds up mindmaps.

If you open this document in file manager, it will have the following look:

Export to MS Project XML

Exporting to MS Project XML not only diagram but also resources are exported.

Use Export / MS Project XML in menu File. Dialog Save As will appear.

In this dialog indicate the path on your hard disk, where you want to save the document. Dialog Export XML will open.

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