Project status mindmaps in Open Atrium using Graphmind
Today Peter activated his brand new Graphmind feature on our intranet/extranet that we built with Open Atrium. The feature adds: a tab to the features menu in group spaces; a view page with the mindmaps in the active group space and a button to create new mindmaps. The feature might be quite basic, but the possibilities are mind-boggling.
Besides of the obvious use cases such as:
- taking notes online
- sharing notes you made in Freemind
- collaborative brainstorms
Graphmind has great potential as a reporting tool.
For example, you could use this to build a mindmap tree with the following elements:
non-archived projects > open cases > assigned user. You could use this to make a quick mindmap from the projects you are managing, and then drag and drop the cases to set priorities for your colleagues. During your meeting you can of course click on the link back to the node to update a case...
Graphmind is still in dev but that doesn't mean it doesn't work. Today I had a test run of the feature and the latest version of Graphmind while I was working on the brainstorm for the exportables UI for Spezzle. There are some minor bugs, but I would definitely encourage you to give it a try!
The mindmap feature for Open Atrium is of course available at our feature server.
There are still a lot of things we want to implement (e.g. concurrent editing by multiple users, dynamic box sizes, update nodes/taxonomy using a mindmap). If you have feedback, suggestions or you would like to sponsor the development of a specific functionality for the module, get in touch.
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I was wondering if there was an updated mindmaps feature i checked your features server but i haven't seen a new one. I have the problem that someone mentioned before where you don't see the add new mindmap button.
We haven't gotten to updating our features lately, things have been really busy. Keeping up with Open Atrium beta releases
was too much work considering that so far we haven't had clients paying for development work on the knowledge management features.
Once we're done with the documentation distro, however we will be coming back to the project management distro for Drupal developers. Then we'll rebuild the feature (maybe for the actual Open Atrium release?).
Check out http://modulecraft.com/ that's the fund and awareness raising project we made to support the development of the tools for Drupal professionals.
The graphmind module has also evolved quite a bit, there was some refactoring and there's a couple of new features.
are you saying that if you rearrange the nodes that are exposed via a view in graphmind tht the priority of those nodes will be updated?
"You could use this to make a quick mindmap from the projects you are managing, and then drag and drop the cases to set priorities for your colleagues."
I suspect not, but that would make it a tremendous tool
That exact case would be hard, but we would like to make it possible to change Drupal node properties (e.g. field values and the like) through the mindmap interface.
You could for example drag your node from a low priority to a high priority branch and then update your Drupal database...
Complimenting the coders and architects with this module.
Personally it is mind boggling the POTENTIAL of this module.
I was just sitting in AWE. Just imagine when you brainstorm collaboratively as pointed out above. That is when each person put their idea into the map...
Can one imagine the power just in this one use case for project management.
Congrats to you, and one thing is sure, that this is a mod that we have to handle with tender Love and Care (TLC) since this will help set drupal miles apart.
Have a wonderful day!, Mine was made this morning already!
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Looking good, but I don't see the icons on the right side, see also http://drupal.org/node/581220
thanks for sharing the feature, i'm currently testing it now ... a first small notice: the feature itself does not seem to have a dependency to the drupal module graphmind
This is great potential for teachers - since "mind mapping" is a powerful learning exercise for "meta-cognition" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map).
I will be using it with teachers in a district I consult with, and also (possibly) creating a screencast of adding MindMap to OpenAtrium in preparation for NYC Drupal Camp. If anyone is interested in such a screencast, email me.