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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0007214 | mantisbt | printing | public | 2006-06-21 04:15 | 2023-05-04 16:23 |
Reporter | tandler | Assigned To | dregad | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
Product Version | 1.0.3 | ||||
Summary | 0007214: Export issues from mantis to a freemind mindmap | ||||
Description | I've written a script to export the issue list as a freemind mindmap (.mm), see http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ The idea is to be able to easily and quickly browse many issues with one offline data set and use the nice freemind UI. This is e.g. very helpful to get an overview of new issues, and one can take advantage of the nice structuring possibilities of freemind. I would be glad to hear your comments / feedback! | ||||
Tags | patch | ||||
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related to | 0008610 | acknowledged | Display in line an attached freemind map |
PS: Usage hint: just put this script in the mantis directory and call the URL directly (or link it from the view issues page). PPS: There seems to be a problem if the current filter lists many issues (>100). Then, the file is not generated. Could this be a timeout problem? Could anyone please provide some help for me here? |
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PPPS: freemind uses a XML based file format (see also 0004024) |
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PPPPS: It would be nice to integrate this with the freemind flash browser http://www.efectokiwano.net/mm/ |
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The problem that the export fails with many issues (0007214:0013001) comes from a memory limit for the php engine at our mantis installation. It seems that the script needs a lot of memory, I guess for collecting all the information on relationships. If anybody has some hints on how this can be improved, I'd be glad. |
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The freemind flash browser can retreive the mindmap directly from the php script, so you can nicely generate a mindmap view of you current issue list (see screenshot). BTW: Using this visualization I quickly noticed that there's really a difference between sub-issues (children) and dependent issues (that are not necessarily sub-issues), see 0004639. Only sub-issues should be displayed as sub-nodes. |
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I've added a small update 'mm_export 2006-07-06.zip'.
to include it in mantis:
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Following are some comments:
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There are missing file to display the mindmaps.html file, no?
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Thanks for your comments! I'll make the suggested code style changes as soon as I have some time. I didn't include the freemind flash browser in the gz I uploaded here. I looked at the website (http://www.efectokiwano.net/mm/) but I didn't found any hint about the license for the browser. I'll try to figure this out. Regarding the file / function names: There any /many/ different mind map applications, so i decided to use the name of the freemind file extension (.mm), to distinguish it from MinManager '.mmap' etc. So I'd vote for keeping "mm". Ok? The mm_export.mm should export the file directly. That's what it does on my machine here, at least. Doesn't it work for you? |
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It seems that browser is GNU GPL licenced |
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also I have a problem with IE (with Opera all works fine). After a promt to download a file (namely mm_export.php not mindmap) is appeared an error about site missing. |
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Would it be possible to re-add the attachments. |
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I have uploaded the original files that I have downloaded. |
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Hi tandler, I have noticed this same problem when trying to export the image to a JPEG file using "big" files (around 93 kB). I have to be honest: I really didn't get what you have been trying to do. Do you have any suggestion for me, to export as a JPEG file? Cristiano. |
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Hi Tandler, could you remove the file that I attached yesterday? |
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Hi cristianovicente, what problem did you have? I didn't get it, sorry. I don't have the permission to remove attached files, maybe some admin can help here? --Peter |
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Hi, it took a while ... but now I uploaded a diff with the changes requested by Victor (0007214:0013200). I also included the freemind flash browser. I'm happy to hear any comments. --Peter |
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I've tried it on 1.2.x and it required some changes since the categories are now indexed by ids. Other than that it worked well.
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xml export is not related at all, I just was too lazy to pack two zips, sorry! maybe I split this again. |
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Our plan is to get 1.2.0a1 out sometime in March. So ideally we should get the major features in asap. No strict deadlines in place yet. |
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Hi Victor, I just uploaded V0.3 of the freemind and xml features which now work with svn (rev. 5021). I think I followed all your recommendations. Anything else? -- Peter |
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Fixed in svn:5118 I've gone through your patch and did the following:
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Thanks for checking in!! I had added the "Issues" node to have a nices layout, but I guess that's a matter of personal preference. |
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I've updated the freemind export & browser to use the new plugin system since it seems to have been excluded from he core system: http://blog.teambits.de/2010/11/02/mantis-plugin-freemind-export-and-browser/ |
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We are resolving this issue, because it was reported against an old version of MantisBT which is no longer supported. While interesting, I don't think this feature should go into MantisBT core. If anyone still needs this, it should be implemented as a plugin. |
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