Gyro
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Registered: Jan 06, 2005
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In ResultManager v1, the names of parent items could be prepended to task names in the Dashboard map, so that you could see where the task belonged. In ResultsManager v2, this is handled by adding Callout Topics to the Activities, for several reasons: - Activities can now be edited from within the Dashboard map. This means that all their properties, including their text, must be identical to the original copy, so that editing does not introduce unintended changes.
- Callouts can be turned on and off in MindManager, so that Dashboard maps do not look too overloaded with detail.
- More than one generation of parent Result or Project can be shown, with Callouts on the Callouts.
If you are not seeing the parent Result or Project Callouts in your Dashboard map, then either they are disabled in the Dashboard Details dialogue for this Dashboard, or you have Callout Topics hidden from view in MindManager (View | Show/Hide | Callouts). The latter is more likely, as this setting is remembered by each map, and is turned off by default in the Express Dashboard. |
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horvathcom
Registered: Aug 23, 2007
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I find the callouts difficult to use. Is there a way to create a dashboard that has the Project name as a branch, similar to how Contexts appear?
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NickDuffill
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Registered: Dec 10, 2004
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The disadvantage with Callouts is that they are either all on or all off. You cannot view the callouts of a specific topic in the same way that you can cycle the level of detail in of the subtopics.
It is not straightforward to integrate the parent project name into a copy of an activity while also preserving the topic so that changes can be detected and sent back to the original project maps.
Reorganising by project is possible - I think ActivityOwner has a template for this but if not we will try to find one. However, you lose the grouping by contexts unless you use a dashboard which shows things both by project and by context.
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horvathcom
Registered: Aug 23, 2007
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Yea, grouping by context and project would be useful. Right now I have a large list of next items which is hard to analyze with so many being out of context. The callouts give you a little bit of context, but only when looking at any single item. I have resorted to doing dashboards on single projects to focus on those, but that starves the others for attention. A map that either branched by project and then context, or context then project, would be very helpful, as least to me.
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