Work with topic information


The Topic Info Box appears on every topic that contains task info, visual information, topic data or topic elements. You can launch a Topic Info Card, which appears below a topic and displays a summary of information contained in that topic. It always shows all information related to the topic including task info, dates, costs, resources and more; topic elements, such as links, attachments, alerts, comments or notes; visual information like markers, images or slide; and topic data, such as properties or formulas.

The Topic Info Box is customizable. You can choose whether to display them, how they look, and what information to include. And if you prefer the display style of topic information in previous versions of MindManager, you can choose to use the legacy topic-info mode. When you open maps created with MindManager for Mac 13.3 or lower, the legacy topic-info display style is used.

Topic Info Box display styles: Modern (left), Legacy (right)

Topic Info Card

To display Topic Info Cards

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Select a topic, click the View tab, and click the Topic Info drop-down , and choose Show Info Card.
To close the Topic Info Card, click the close button in the card’s title bar.

To customize the Topic Info Box

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1 Do one of the following:
Control-click a Topic Info Box, and choose Topic Info Display Settings.
Select a topic, click the View tab, and click the Topic Info drop-down , and choose Topic Info Display Settings.
2 Perform a task from the following table.

 

To
Do the following
Choose a Topic Info Box display style
Enable the Legacy option to display topic info as it appeared in MindManager for Mac 13.3 and earlier or the Modern option to use the default style.
Show icons in the Topic Info Box
Enable the Show Icons in topic info check box.
Display Control Strip icons to right of topic
Enable the Show Control Strip on the right check box.
Group information types
Enable the Show separators between information types check box.
Change the background color
Open the Background color picker, and choose a color.
Change the font color
Open the Font color picker, and choose a color.
Change the color of tags
Open the Default tag color picker, and choose a color.
Change the color of resources
Open the Default resource color picker, and choose a color.

To show or hide specific types of topic information

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1 Do one of the following:
Control-click a Topic Info Box, and choose Topic Info Display Settings.
Select a topic, click the View tab, and click the Topic Info drop-down , and choose Topic Info Display Settings.
2 In the Show/Hide specific information area, enable check boxes corresponding to the type of topic info to show.

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If a topic contains hidden topic information, an icon appears in the bottom right of the Topic Info Box. You can choose not to display the hidden topic information icon by unchecking the Show icon on topics with hidden information check box. Hovering your mouse pointer over the icon displays the Topic Info Card and topic information, both shown and hidden.

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You can hide a specific type of topic info by Control-clicking an instance of the topic info and choosing Hide [topic info type].

To copy topic info

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In a Topic Info Box, click an icon for cost, resources, properties, or dates, and drag it to the destination topic.
To cut the icon, hold Command while you drag it to the destination topic.

To collapse topic info

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Do one of the following:
Control-click a Topic Info Box, and choose Collapse Info on Topic.
Select a topic, click the View tab, and click the Topic Info drop-down , and choose Collapse Info on Topic.

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If a topic contains collapsed topic information, an icon appears in the bottom right of the Topic Info Box. Hovering your mouse pointer over the icon displays the Topic Info Card showing topic information, both shown and collapsed.You can expand collapsed topic information by Control-clicking the icon and choosing Expand Info on Topic.

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