View and edit workspace files

Applies to MindManager used with Mindjet Catalyst.

You can open workspace files (documents that are not maps) in their associated applications for viewing or editing. Workspace files also include MindManager Map Templates (*.mmat files) and MindManager Map Styles (*.mmas files) that you can edit with MindManager.

Open a file for viewing

The document opens in its native application in read-only mode.

Open a file for editing

To open the file for editing you must check it out: A local copy of the file is created, and this is the file that is modified. When you are finished editing, you can choose to check it in (save the local copy back to the workspace) or destroy the checkout (discard your changes).

You cannot check out a file if:

If you want to save a copy of the file before you begin editing you can create a revision or save a local copy.

During editing the file is locked for other workspace members (they can view but not edit it), and remains locked when you return to MindManager until you check it in or discard the checkout.

Once you have edited the file and check it back in , other users will see the map status for this file change to "Out of date", indicating that their local copy of the file is not current.

Edit a file

  1. Check out the file by doing one of the following:

In the documents list the file is shown as checked out ( for you, for other users). Other users can view but not edit the file while it is checked out.

  1. Open the file by doing one of the following:

Double-click the file name in the Documents list, then select Check Out & Open to open the file for editing in one step.

The file opens in its associated application. The application launched depends on your local system's file associations. You can edit the file only if its associated application allows editing.

  1. Edit the file as desired and save it in the application, then close the application.

If you are editing a MindManager Map Template or Map Style, save it as you normally would.

At this point, the changes you have made are saved only in the local copy of the file.
In the Documents list the file's Local Copy status changes to Modified on your system.

  1. Now you should either check in the document (saves the changed local file to the workspace), or discard the checkout (discards changes and leaves the workspace file unchanged).

You must check in the document to save your changes in the workspace file.

You will be asked if you want to save a revision of the current workspace file before checking in the edited version.

In the Documents list the file's Local Copy status changes to Current on your system, and Out of Date on other users' systems.

The file remains checked out and locked for other users until you use the Check In or Discard Checkout command. A workspace Owner can break the lock for a checked-out file.
If you have changed the file, but you do not check it in, you may see the file's Local Copy status change to Unresolved. This means that the workspace Owner has broken the lock, and another member has checked out the file, edited it, and checked it in.

Virus protection

If you attempt to check in a file that contains a virus you will be notified, and the file will not be saved to the workspace. Instead a placeholder is added to the Documents list, and you are prompted to destroy the placeholder.

Destroying the placeholder also destroys all previous revisions of the document.

If you want to use one or more revisions do not destroy the placeholder when prompted. Instead, use these steps.

Restore a revision of an infected document

  1. Do not destroy the infected document placeholder when prompted:

  2. Save the revision to a local file:

  1. Select the infected document's placeholder in the Documents list.

  2. In the Previous Revisions pane, right-click the revision you want to restore.

  3. Click Save a Copy and save the revision to a local folder or to your desktop.

(Repeat these steps if you want to save any other revisions. Each revision will be saved as a separate document.)

  1. Remove the infected document's placeholder:

  2. Import the saved revision back into the workspace as new document: