Edit workspace documents offline

Applies to MindManager used with Mindjet Catalyst.

It is most efficient to remain connected to Mindjet Catalyst while you are working with workspace documents. If you wish to continue to work with workspace documents when a connection is not available you can use the following steps:

• For Files:
  While you are still connected to Mindjet Catalyst, you can check out workspace files and then edit these after you disconnect. You can check these back in when you re-connect.
  If you are no longer connected, you can still access locally-cached documents, make copies of these, and then edit the local copies.
  When you re-connect, you can import the modified documents to the workspace as new documents, and remove the originals.

• For Maps:
  While you are still connected to Mindjet Catalyst you can save local copies of the workspace maps, then edit these after you disconnect.
  If you are no longer connected, you can still access locally-cached maps, make copies of these, and then edit the local copies.
  When you re-connect, you can import the modified maps to the workspace as new documents, and remove the originals.

Make a local copies of workspace documents

While still connected to Mindjet Catalyst

For files, a local copy is created when you check out the document. This file is available for editing while you are offline.

For maps, you must make a local copy to edit while you are offline. See Save copies of workspace documents to create local copies of your maps. You can edit these copies and then add them back to the workspace when you reconnect.

If you are already offline

While you were connected to the Mindjet Catalyst server, documents that you viewed or edited were automatically copied to a cache on your local system.

When you are working offline, locally-cached documents show active (colored) document icons. Documents that were not cached show inactive (gray) icons.

The cached documents are read-only, but you can make local copies of them, and work with these copies. The inactive documents are not available offline.

• Check the Local Copy status of workspace files to ensure that you have up-to-date versions of the files you want to edit. If the Local Copy column shows the file is Out of Date, a newer version of this file exists on the server. To update the local copy you must view the file while you are still connected.
• You can empty the document cache at any time using the MindManager Temporary Files option.

Add changed local copies back to the workspace.

If you checked out files for editing, check them back in when you re-connect to send your changes to the server.

If you did not check out files that you edited offline, or if you edited maps offline, you can import the modified local copies of the documents into workspaces as new documents. To avoid confusion, you may want to remove the original documents.

• If you remove the originals, their previous revisions will also be lost.

See also:

View and edit workspace files

Save copies of workspace documents

Add documents to workspaces