Export a map to Visio

MindManager's Visio export allows you to use your map to create a Visio org-chart drawing or a Visio flowchart drawing.

You can quickly create a generic org-chart or flowchart with default shapes by simply using the export feature, but you also have the option to specify the shapes you want to use for each topic in the exported drawing. To do this you select a Visio stencil and then use the imported shape icon markers to code the topics in your map. You do not have to choose a shape icon marker for every topic - un-coded topics will be exported using a default shape. For flowcharts, you can indicate process flow by adding summary boundaries and relationship lines to your map.

Export a Visio drawing

1. Optional Select a stencil and code the map▼.

   The following steps are needed only if:

   You want to specify the shapes to use for topics in the exported drawing

   OR

   You want to use start and stop markers to export only part of the map or split it across several sheets.

   1. On the Export tab, in the Microsoft Office Export group, click the Export to Visio arrow, and then click Select Microsoft Visio Stencils.

   2. Choose a stencil group from the list.
      (Select Import Start and Stop markers if you plan to export only a portion of your map or split the map into several drawings.)

      • Only shapes from the Organization Chart Shapes stencil are used when you export an org-chart to Visio. All other shapes are ignored.   

   3. Click Import. A new Visio marker group with Visio shapes will be added to the Map Markers list.

   4. Code the topics in your map with the shape icon markers to indicate the shapes you want to use in the exported drawing, and use Start and Stop markers as needed.

   5. If desired, add summary boundaries to indicate sequential process flow and relationships to show unstructured process flow on the exported flowchart. (These objects are ignored when you export an org-chart)

    

2. Do one of the following:

• On the Export tab, in the Microsoft Office Export group, click Export to Visio.

• Click the MindManager Button , click Save As, and in the Save as type list select Microsoft Visio Diagram.

 If you do not see Microsoft Visio on the Export tab or in the Save as type list see Troubleshooting Office add-ins.

3. The default name for the diagram will be the map name, but you can change this and the location where it is saved. Click Save.

Mindjet Catalyst - You can save the Visio diagram to a workspace by choosing Workspaces as the Save in location, then selecting a workspace.

4. In the Microsoft Visio Export Settings dialog check Org-chart or Flowchart, and specify whether you want to export each process to its own sheet or include all processes on one sheet. You can also choose to export any relationships or summary topics as indicators of process flow.

5. Click Export.

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

Each time you use the Visio export feature in MindManager a new instance of Visio is started. This is necessary to ensure the integrity of the exported drawings.