Express Mode has simpler dialogues and fewer options. Power User mode has more choices in the dialogues and options: Power User Mode enables access to the following features:

• Specifying the Start date when editing Activities
• Specifying Result activity types when editing Activities
• Specifying Committed or Someday-Maybe status when editing Activities
• Specifying Areas when editing Activities
• Specifying Categories when editing Activities
• Access to all Dashboards (not just the Express Mode dashboards)
• Extra support for MindManager's synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook
• Generation of dashboards from selected parts of a map
• Editing of multiple activities in blocks
• Optional disabling of Automatic inheriting of task information
• Optional disabling of automatic delegation of activities
• Optional suppression of extra messages and warnings
• Pagination of activities in the Dashboard maps

 

MindManager keeps track of recently used maps, and displays a list in the File menu so that you can reopen the latest ones without browsing. Unfortunately, when ResultsManager visits a series of maps during the creation of a Dashboard map, MindManager remembers these instead and overwrites your recently used list with the maps that ResultsManager has accessed. So each time you generate a Dashboard with ResultsManager, the recently used maps list is effectively trashed. The workaround is to make sure that you have links in the "My Maps" task pane for maps that you use frequently, so that you don't need to rely on the recently used list in the File menu. Refer to the MindManager documentation for details of using the My Maps task pane.

 

This is a known issue that we hope to resolve in a future version. Just close the MindManager help window to see the ResultsManager help window.

 

Yes. To use it with MiniProject, you should

 

• Disable the option for Automatic Delegation, and
• Disable the option for Automatic Inheritance

 

as MiniProject does not understand either of these features. You should explicitly assign owners and categories as required per task, then MiniProject can be used to calculate schedules for project networks, and ResultsManager will use the dates that MiniProject calculates in its dashboards.

 

MiniProject is less useful for scheduling Dashboards as they contain little information about the logic of projects (predecessors and successors), and usually only contain next actions.

 

 

Yes. The primary difference between the way that ResultsManager normally interprets maps, and the way that other project-management tools understand MindManager maps is that ResultsManager uses the "Funnel Timeline" layout.

This can be turned off so that ResultsManager does not calculate next actions from the subtopics of an activity. Change to Power User mode, click  the ResultsManager tab | Options group | Options | ResultsManager Options | Dashboard Options and disable the "Funnel Timeline" option. ResultsManager will now behave as follows:

• Sub-topics of an activity are not its predecessors
• Activities at the other end of incoming Relationships are still task predecessors
• ResultsManager will not bring back dates of predecessors to match a deadline, allowing topics to be defined as "rolled up" or summary activities.

 

In addition to its own custom Icons for Projects  and Results , ResultsManager also uses some of the  stock MindManager Icons for its own purposes. These are:

 

• The "Meeting" Icon , which ResultsManager renames as "Committed",
• The "Hourglass" Icon , which ResultsManager renames as "Someday-Maybe"
• The "Exclamation mark" icon , which ResultsManager renames to "Deadline"
• The "No entry" Icon , which ResultsManager renames as "Exclude from Dashboard", and
• The "Magnifying Glass" Icon , which ResultsManager renames as "Dashboard Filter"

 

When the Edit or Dashboard commands are used, ResultsManager steals these Icons and renames them if they are already in use in your map. You will find them in the Map Markers set after using the Edit or Dashboard commands.

 

If you have already used these icons for other purposes in your maps, you will need to reassign them to avoid confusion. The Map Markers task pane in MindManager makes this easy.

 

If you are using Shared maps in ResultsManager Professional Edition, ResultsManager will not open maps where a lock file already exists, because another user could already be editing it. If this is not correct, i.e. if a lock file has been left behind by an early termination of MindManager, or by failure to use the command File | Close and unlock shared map (when using private lock files, with MindManager X5 and 6 only), then the solution will depend on the locking scheme you are using:

• If you are using normal MindManager lock files, then the likely cause of orphaned lock files is that MindManager terminated unexpectedly in a previous session. Sometimes it does not clean up old lock files, so you will need to find and delete an existing lock file. Lock files are in the same folder as the map, are named "~$mapname.mmap.~$lock" and are hidden files. They normally contain the name of the user who created the lock file.
• If you are using ResultsManager's private locking scheme, the lock file will be in the same folder as the map, and will be named "mapname.mmap__lock.txt". These file contain the user name of the person who created the lock file, and the date it was created. You can either delete it manually, or simply open the map using the normal Open command in MindManager (which does not observe ResultsManager's private lock file), and then close it with the command File | Close and unlock shared map. (MindManager X5 and 6 only). ResultsManager does not check that the lock file is released by the same user who created it.

None of the above applies if you are using ResultsManager Standard, or if you are not using any shared locations.

 

(MindManager X5 and 6 only). For the keyboard shortcuts to work, the required command must be visible in the MindManager menu. This may not be the case if you have MindManager configured to only show the most recently used commands. To ensure that the keyboard shortcuts always work, click Tools | Customize | Options and check the option "Always show full menu".