Work with Microsoft Project

Prepare the map for export

Project uses the MindManager Task Info to fill in the task details, but your topics are not required to have task info defined for them. In other words, you can export a basic set of tasks from MindManager and fill in the information for them in Project.

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Project can only support a single link per task. If any of your map topics have multiple links, only the first (primary) link is exported. You can re-order the links on a topic if the link you want to export is not the topic's primary link.

Export an entire map to a Microsoft Project file

1. Open the map in MindManager.
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   Only visible topics are exported. This means you can apply a filter to hide topics you don't want to include in the project.

2. Do one of the following:
   

   On the Home tab, click the arrow next to the Share button. In the Share drop-down, select Export Task Info to Microsoft Project.

   OR

   Click the File tab, and click Share.  Then under Export, click select Export to Microsoft Project.

   OR

   Click the File tab, click Save As, and in the Save as type list select Microsoft Project Files.

    

Mindjet online features
You can save the Project file to Mindjet Files online. See Save a map as a different file type in Mindjet Files for more information.

3. In the export dialog, the default name for the project will be the map name, but you can change this and the location where it is saved.

4. Click Save.

5. A dialog appears with the export settings. Check the options you want to use. 

A new Project file is created. You can Open the project to check it, Open Folder where it was saved or Close to return to MindManager.

Export selected topics to a Microsoft Project file

1. In Project, open the file that you want to add the tasks to. If no project is opened, a new project will be created.

2. In MindManager select the map topics to export.

3. Right-click, click Send to, and then click Microsoft Project.

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The topics will be exported and added to the end of current project.

The Project export is a one-time operation, and no link is retained between the Project tasks and the MindManager topics. If you export tasks from Project and then make changes to the tasks in MindManager you cannot export the tasks back to Project to update them there. Instead, you can delete the old tasks, then export again. The exported tasks will be added at the end of the project as new tasks.

Import an entire Project file

1. Click the File tab, click Import, and then click Import Microsoft Project File.
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   If you do not see Microsoft Project in the list, see Troubleshooting Office add-ins.

2. Select the file you want to import and click Open.

3. A dialog appears to let you customize the Import Settings. Once the settings have been adjusted to your liking, click Import.

You'll see a status message appear as the file is processed, then the new map will appear.

Import only selected Project tasks

1. To add the tasks to an existing map, open the map in MindManager and select a target topic if desired.

2. Select the tasks in Project.

3. Click the Send to MindManager Map  button on the Project ribbon, or click File, click Send to, then click MindManager. MindManager will start and open a new map if its not already active.
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   If you do not see the Send to MindManager Map  button on the Project ribbon or in the File menu, see Troubleshooting Office add-ins.

4. A dialog appears to let you customize the Import Settings. Once the settings have been adjusted to your liking, click Import.

The Project import is a one-time operation, and no link is retained between the Project tasks and the MindManager topics. If you import tasks from Project and then make changes to the tasks in MindManager you cannot export the tasks back to Project to update the existing Project tasks. Instead, the existing tasks will remain and the exported tasks will be added at the end of the project as new tasks.