MindManager add-ins Update

Whilst we are doing our best and are in contact with Mindjet®, unfortunately, we have not been able to get TPAssist 2007 or TPAssist Capture working correctly with the latest and previous versions of MindManager® (aka Mindjet® for Windows v11 or MindManager® v14). The add-ins still integrates fully with MindManager® v6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

TPAssist 2007 version 1.8.6 - Release Notes

TPAssist 2007 for Mindjet® MindManager® has been updated.

Version 1.8.6 is a maintenance update.

Improvements:

• Task start/due date and duration handling adjusted for MindManager 2012
• Journal Dialog supports "Minutes" in duration (MindManager 2012 only)
• Task "Levelling" uses map calendar (for MindManager 2012 and MindManager 9)
• Outlook Integrated Linkage Module compiled for MindManager 2012 (10.0.445)
• Journal Tab adjusted to include "Active" button
• Send Map and Send Topic support "date"

Fixes:

• Journaling in multi-map now updates parent map's topic after child map (so correct priority/percent complete/flags are reflected).
• Task Summary correctly collecting "due date" as overdue not just today
• Auto-Journal no longer leaves "NOTES MACRO" tree in new maps
• Hours in day handled correctly.
• Auto-Clear Background will be skipped if font colour and background colo are the same.
• Topic Tree Template no longer processes Research and other control topics

Download the update via our download page.

TPAssist 2007 version 1.8.3 - Release Notes

TPAssist 2007 for Mindjet® MindManager® has been updated.


Version 1.8 is a major feature update.



Additional capabilities within version 1.8:

• Quick Links Map V2 (Group Headings, Linked Lists, Speed Keys and Tagging)
• Auto Follow (ability to interact with the target of a hyper linked topic)
• Journal TAB "GTDised"
• New Look Capture Dialogues
• Topic Ribbon Commands "GTDised"
• Capture tools optimized
• Excel Enhancements

See the help web site for further details.

Fixes:

• Minor fixes to Journalling in multi-maps
• Minor typos in dialog boxes
• Fixed Journal Reference - Central topic if missing
• Minor typos in Basket Processing dialog boxes

Download the update via our download page.

TPAssist 2007 version 1.6.7 - Release Notes

TPAssist 2007 for Mindjet® MindManager® has been updated. Version 1.6.7 is a maintenance update.

Tips for applying this update:

• If using Microsoft VISTA Service 1 or 2, please use the Control Panel to uninstall TPAssist 2007 before applying this update (if using the Outlook Integrated Linkage Module, please uninstall all occurrences of TPAssist 2007 listed in the Control Panel).
• In all cases, MindManager and Outlook should be closed before uninstalling and installing updates.
• Download and install the update.

Additional capabilities within version 1.6.7:

• Options dialog now support the capability to "override" Outlook protection when in Mindjet Connect maps, the dialog also supports the capability to switch off OILM integration (performance increase); and ability to inherit Central Topic for %r macro if the Journal Reference is omitted in the topic tree.

Fixes:

• Multi-map Tree Update now using specific map's Tree Update properties.
• Link At now copying Financial Capabilities correctly.
• Send Topic command no longer has option to "delete topic" if used on a central topic.
• Link At and Add to Quicklinks commands now disabled in unsaved maps.
• Typo in Options dialog.
• Journal Tab and Tree Update not calculating "%y" macros in Status Callouts.
• %y0 and %y1 Macros incorrectly counting current topic in count (not just subtopics).
• Create auto-command now works in Floating Topics.

Installing TPAssist with MindManager 8 Update - 8.0.217 or 8.0.235

These is an issue with installing TPAssist with recent MindManager 8 updates.

Mindjet released an update for MindManager 8 in January. This update, we are told, is to fix an installation issue relating to Visual Studio. The update contains no other change and therefore is functionally the same as 8.0.217 (released in late November).

TPAssist is built for specific versions of MindManager to comply with the strict anti-malware rules applied to our Microsoft Outlook component.

We released an update in January, version 1.5.19, for MindManager 8.0.235. This update contains no fixes or functional changes.

Since Mindjet consider the recent update to be minor, users with MindManager 8.0.217 won't be informed of the update when they "Check for Update". Further more, the "Check For Update" capability within MindManager will say that the user already has 8.0.235, however if the user then use the "About MindManager" command they will be told they have version 8.0.217..

How does this impact TPAssist installation?

• This issue does not effect users with MindManager 6 or 7.


• There is no impact if you are using TPAssist 1.5.18 (go to TPAssist Help->Check for Update)


• If you are not using the most recent update of TPAssist, you need to update to MindManager 8.0.235 before installing the latest TPAssist update. (See resources below)

Resources:

MindManager Updates: http://www.mindjet.com/resources/downloads/archive/default.aspx

TPAssist Downloads: http://www.tpassist.com/Downloads/DownloadReadMe.aspx?prod=1

TPAssist 1.5 Known Issue - My Life Template Task Summary

This notice applies to TPAssist 2007 release 1.5 (build 1.5.13 or earlier).

Groups of maps created from the same template and then linked to a single Dashboard do not correctly get reflected in the TASK SUMMARY.

This has been corrected in the latest maintenance update, version 1.5.14 (download).

To check what version you are running, open the TPAssist Help (from the TPAssist Ribbon in MindManager 7 or from the Help menu in MindManager 6). Then use the Check for Update button.

You can download the update here.

TPAssist 1.5 Known Issue - Help Content - "TPAssist Console"

This notice applies to TPAssist 2007 release 1.5 (build 1.5.9).

The help pages have a corruption in the TPAssist Console section. This has been corrected in the latest maintenance update (download).

In addition, you can now see the correct content on line via http://www.tpassist.com/tutorials/TPAssistMMAHelp/index.html and there is a recently uploaded PDF at http://www.tpassist.com/tutorials/TPAssist2007_Help_WebContent.pdf.

TPAssist 2007 version 1.5 - What's New

TPAssist 2007 for Mindjet® MindManager® version 1.5 includes many new features and improvements. These include:

• Financial Capabilities that allow you to manage effort and costs with-in your maps.

• The ability to export map project and task information to Microsoft Excel in a format suitable for generating pivot tables and charts.

• A Microsoft Project export capability that is Multimap enabled, supports effort and fixed cost and will perform roll-up of task information to produce overview or summary project Gantt charts.

• A growing list of features and capabilities that enhance your Mindjet Connect experience. These including the Attachment Cache, My Tasks, Multimap export to Excel and the new Multimap enabled Microsoft Project export.

• Several productivity enhancement, including "My Tasks", export To-Dos, customisable "Topic Status", Update Outlook Integration, Multi-select Journaling, Multi-select Topic properties, enhanced resource handling, file shortcut support, customisable HTML Viewer page and topic tree template creator.

• The ability to track and compare original target date verses actual completion.

• A set of new MindManager 7 Ribbon short-cut commands and finally a number of "under the bonnet" performance enhancements and fixes.

Download TPAssist 2007 for Mindjet® MindManager® v7.2 / 6.2 today! (download for MindManager v7.1)

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - Release Notes

TPAssist 2007 version 1.5 is now available for download.





Key new Features:

1. Financial Capabilities that allow you to manage effort and costs with-in your maps.



2. The ability to export map project and task information to Microsoft Excel in a format suitable for generating pivot tables and charts.



3. A Microsoft Project export capability that is Multimap enabled, supports effort and fixed cost and will perform roll-up of task information to produce overview or summary project Gantt charts.



4. A growing list of features and capabilities that enhance your Mindjet Connect experience. These including the Attachment Cache, My Tasks, Multimap export to Excel and the new Multimap enabled Microsoft Project export.



5. Several productivity enhancement, including "My Tasks", export To-Dos, customisable "Topic Status", Update Outlook Integration, Multi-select Journaling, Multi-select Topic properties, enhanced resource handling, file shortcut support, customisable HTML Viewer page and topic tree template creator.



6. The ability to track and compare original target date verses actual completion.



7. A set of new MindManager 7 Ribbon short-cut commands and finally a number of "under the bonnet" performance enhancements and fixes.

Enhancements:

1. Excel Export makes better use of the progress bar - increasing feedback on progress and properly supporting the cancel capability.



2. Export to Excel's Task List capability has been restructured decreasing the build time.



3. Export to Excel performs "auto-row" in more key places.



4. Overhaul of the the "Progress Bar" functionality and usage to improve feedback to long-running activities.



5. The Document Tab of TPAssist Console has been re-organised again such that it is more intuitive and that the most used features are more accessible.



6. Excel Export "issues" template has been evolved to make it applicable to a wider set of applications.

Fixes:

1. Levelling/Auto-date now taking into account hyperlinked topics.



2. Licensing Wizard now restored discounted subscription keys.



3. (1.4 bug) Tree Update not functioning correctly on "in-map" hyperlinked topics.



4. Tree Update not working in Floating Topics Trees.



5. Levelling/Auto-date "FF" function not working correctly.



6. Excel Export doesn't open Excel if no focus topic.



7. (1.4 bug) Tree Update completed hyperlinked topics didn't count towards parent's percent complete.



8. (1.4 bug) Resource Filter in Task Summary not working.



9. Journal Tab "duration" now defaults blank entries back to zero.



10. Outlook "link" e-mail item, when Outlook integration enabled by default, creates duplicate Outlook Tasks.



11. Dialogs get lost when error message or another application activates during open.



12. Tree Update of topics linked to specific submaps topics being back status of central topic, not target topic.



13. Licensing Wizard requiring administrator mode after install in Vista when UAC enabled.



14. Task Summary "Active Only" flag not bring ignored for "in the past" and "no date" items.



15. MM error message being hidden during Tree Updates of broken submaps links.



16. (1.4 bug) Tree Update not processing in-map target topic when "omit from tree update" on.



17. (1.5 beta bug) Tree Update crashing when closing an unchanged sub map.



18. Journal abbreviation too short.



19. Levelling/Auto-date not getting next date when first date in tree isn't set to level or is hyperlinked.



20. Levelling/Auto-date should not process priority 1, 2 or 3 topics.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Productivity enhancements

TPAssist 2007 version 1.5 comes with several productivty focused enhancements:

• Productivity enhancements Use the "My Tasks" Task Summary filter to extract and summarise only task assigned to you.


• Build and then export the "Task Summary" to create portable "to-do" lists.


• "Topic Status" is now customisable and can include any existing TPAssist value-added properties plus work and other financial details, including estimates, actual and remaining values.


• Update Outlook Integration is a new Document tool that performs a batch up update of all topic that are using TPAssist's Outlook integration. This tools catches and synchronises changes to made with-in Outlook or the map topics.


• The Journal Tab is now Multi-select enabled, permitting you to make changes to a selection of topics at the same time.


• The Properties component of the Topic Tab is now multi-select enabled, permitting you to make changes to a selection of topics at the same time.


• Resource Handling has been extended, in addition to adding Full Name and Hourly Rates for use in financial capabilities and publishing, you can now import these resource details from other maps and pick your resources via the Journal Tab.


• The "Topic" tab now includes a tool for linking files or URLs directly to focus topics as "Shortcuts", therefore providing you the ability to "link" multiple items to a topic and avoiding the need to store the file with-in your map.


• Customisable "Display" properties in Topic - Topic Handing - support for exposing TPAssist "extra" properties as custom properties - making the visible and editable.


• The page size in the HTML viewer creation tool can now be customised so you can choose the window into your maps for non MindManager users.


• Create topic tree templates from existing topic trees, whereby the topics are "reset", removing any journals and attachments, leaving them ready to re-use.


• Project tracking - "Original Target Date" - Capture and manage topic task "original target date" (as well as Due Date). Export task list to the new Excel "Pivot Source" format and perform rich analysis of task completion performance.


• MindManager Ribbon short-cut commands - Manage groups of tasks quickly and effectively with the new Ribbon short-cuts.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Accelerator for Mindjet Connect

TPAssist enhances your Mindjet Connect experience through a growing list of features and capabilities, including the Attachment Cache, My Tasks, Multimap export to Excel and the new Multimap enabled Microsoft Project export.

TPAssist helps:

• Keep the rich capabilities of organising e-mails with-in your map and make use of an "Attachment Cache" and automated short-cuts to reduce download times and online storage.


• Provide a summary of your assignments, by using the "My Tasks" Task Summary filter to extract and summarise only task assigned to you.


• Increase your effectiveness by allowing you to break your projects up into smaller, manageable pieces and as well as rolling-up topic status and other details, publish and analyse your projects in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Microsoft Project publish

TPAssist's publish to Microsoft Project capability extracts information from the current map and its sub maps (if required) to produce a single project Gantt. The makes use of the fixed costs, full names and hourly rates capability in TPAssist, is Multimap enabled and will allow the roll-up of topics to produce overview or summary project Gantt charts.
Using this tool you can:

• Publish summarises and subsets of your project maps, not loosing any valuable resource detail.



• Make use of the TPAssist's "Financial Capabilities" and publish duration, effort/work and fixed costs from your project and task map into Microsoft Project.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Excel Export - "Pivot Source"

In addition to producing a number of "ready to print" reports, TPAssist will export map project and task information to a format suitable for generating pivot tables and charts. This capability unleashes the potential types of reports and analysis possible with mind map details.

In summary, this new feature includes:

• Export to Excel "Pivot Source" worksheet - flat export of mind map end topics to worksheet in a format suitable for pivot tables and charts.




• Export to Excel "Status Source" worksheet - flat export of mind map end topics to worksheet in a format suitable for pivot tables and charts, plus filtering




• Manipulate and analysis task "work", costs and categorises.




• Categorise topics perform detailed analysis with Excel Pivot tables.

TPAssist 2007 v1.5 - What's New - Financial Capabilities

TPAssist's Financial Capabilities allow you to manage estimated, actual and remaining "Work" and topic "Values" directly with-in your map topics.

With the Financial Capabilities turned-on you can:

• Incorporate resource effort "Work" (not just Duration) and other cost management capabilities in topics and have that detail rolled-up to parent topics and maps.




• Manage estimated, actual and remaining work and cost values for topic, topic trees and maps.




• Have your work, costs and other TPAssist "extra" properties displayed directly on the map with automatically populated titles and "Display" custom properties.




• Use Excel to further analyse work and costs using the improved "Pivot Source" Excel Export function.




• Publish work effort and fixed costs into Microsoft Project.

Mindjet Connect and Support for MindManager 7 Service Pack 2

Mindjet® MindManager® 7, Service Pack 2 (7.2.374), released for general availability on 17th of June has been developed specifically to facilitate Mindjet Connect.


TPAssist 2007 has been extensively tested for use with SP2 and also with maps located in Mindjet® Connect.

UPDATE (15/Sep/08) - 1.5 is now released, please see our download page.

Our most recent updated, TPAssist 2007 1.4, whilst successfully tested with Mindjet Connect (MJC), has one issued with regards to in-effective Hyperlinks in the "Task Summary" feature when operated on MJC maps. TPAssist is working with Mindjet to find a solution.


TPAssist 2007 1.4 has been built for MindManager 6.2.399 and 7.1.394. One of these exact versions must be installed in order to make use of the optional Outlook Add-in.


TPAssist users who move to MindManager 7 Service Pack 2 (SP2) can make use of TPAssist 1.4 if they do not which to use the Outlook Add-in. However, if the Outlook Add-in is required, the beta of TPAssist 1.5 must be installed. The beta of TPAssist 1.5 can be downloaded here.

TPAssist 2007 v1.4 - Release Notes

TPAssist 2007 version 1.4 is now available for download.

This update could be considered part 2 of our usability initative, which started with version 1.3 where we updated features based on knowledge gained from case studies and feedback from our growing communicate of subscribers.

The update includes improvement in some key areas and a small number of fixes.

Improvements to existing Features:

• The Publish Tab of TPAssist Console re-organised such that it is more intuitive and that the most used features are more accessible. The popup window has been re-designed to provide maximum accessibility to the capabilities that are used most often. You can obtain the lesser used capabilities by clicking the ">>>" button. Likewise, hiding the advanced options is achieved by clicking the "<<" button.
• The Tree Update Tab of TPAssist Console re-organised such that it is more intuitive and that the most used features are more accessible. The popup window has been re-designed to provide maximum accessibility to the capabilities that are used most often. You can obtain the lesser used capabilities by clicking the ">>>" button. Likewise, hiding the advanced options is achieved by clicking the "<<" button.
• The Progress popup has improved message to provide clearer indication of status. For example, the Tree Update and multimap Journal functionality now informs you when it is fetching maps from linked topics.

Fixes:

• Outlook Add-in compatibility verification (installer wont install the Outlook Add-in if the MindManager version isn't matched).
• The Document Properties "Advanced Options" choice is now remembered correctly.
• Improved instructions in "First Time Usage" message, when a TPAssist 2007 command is used on existing (non-TPAssist) mind maps.

Other Notes:

• This update has been built for MindManager 6.2.399 and 7.1.394, these exact versions must be installed in order to make use of the optional Outlook Add-in.
• Whilst this update has been successfully tested with Mindjet Connect, there are some known issues and beta program users should contact us for access to the TPAssist 2007 beta for Mindjet Connect. (http://www.tpassist.com/Support/Default.aspx)

TPAssist 2007 v1.3 - Release Notes

TPAssist 2007 version .1 3 is now available for download. This is possibly the most significant update since TPAssist 2007 was launched in September last year.

This update draws on knowledge gained from case studies and feedback from our growing communicate of subscribers.

The update includes a number of new features as well as improvement in some key areas. The improvements include additional control over automated tree roll-up as well as rationalisation of the interface, including updates to the Journal Tab, Topic Tab and Document Tab. The new features include greater control over combining research alongside task topics, richer Task Summary outputs, as well as categories and time support in the integration with Microsoft Outlook making TPAssist a great companion for tools like GDT Outlook Add-in.

New Features:

1. TPAssist 2007 Outlook Integration now has support for existing Outlook Item categories (making TPAssist 2007 an excellent companion for Outlook methods and tools that make use of item Categories, like the GTD Outlook Add-In). Outlook Categories integration is now configurable via the Advanced Options of the TPAssist "Properties" (Documents Tab) menu selection. Not only can you specify integration with existing categories, you can also use the "macro" to define the creation of customised categories by TPAssist.
2. Outlook Integration now has support for mapping Topic Duration to Outlook Task "Total Work" / "Actual Work". Configured on a map-by-map basis, via the Document Tab, you can define the behaviour or mapping of Topic Duration to either Outlook Task "Total Work" or "Actual Work".
3. The topic title used to build the Task Summary tree can now be customised. When running the Task Summary across multiple sub maps, you can now draw out additional context information and have it included in the topic title. The topic title contents is defined in the Tree Update tab and by default includes the "topic Reference" as well as the source topic title.
4. Topics can be configured to be ignored by the Publishing capability (i.e. you can choose to have specific topic trees ignore when publishing to Excel)
5. Topics can be configured as a "Research / Notes Topic" whereby TPAssist will ignore all sub-topics. This makes it much easier to combine research and task topic tree in the same branches. (Note: This capability replaces to previously support notion of the NOTES main sub topic. All previously used maps will be automatically converted the first time TPAssist 2007 1.3 is used on each map).

Improvements to existing Features:

1. The Journal Tab of TPAssist Console re-organised such that it is more intuitive and that the most used features are more accessible. The popup window has been re-designed to provide maximum accessibility to the capabilities that are used most often. You can obtain the lesser used capabilities by clicking the ">>>" button. Likewise, hiding the advanced options is achieved by clicking the "<<" button.
2. The Topic Tab of TPAssist Console has been re-organised such that it is more intuitive and that the most used features are more accessible. As per above, the most frequently used options are shown, with all options been displayed using the ">>>" button.
3. The Document Tab of TPAssist Console has been re-organised such that it is more intuitive and that the most used features are more accessible. As per above, the most frequently used options are shown, with all options been displayed using the ">>>" button.
4. Automatic Tree Update, executed after task details are changed with the Journal Tab, can now be configured as "Adaptive (Fast)" (default) or "Comprehensive (Slow)". With previous releases the mode of operation was "Adaptive (Fast)". This Tree Update option defines the behaviour of Tree Update after making task detail changes using the Journal Tab. When task details are changed, you will likely wish for the task details to be rolled- up to the central topic. The choices as part of this setting define the degree to which the map is updated each time you press OK in the Journal Tab after changing task details. If "None (Disabled)" is selected, automatic update is turn- off. Roll-up information will be populated only by doing a manual Tree Update from the central topic. If "Comprehensive (Slow)" is selected, the entire map is automatically updated every-time the Journal Tab is used to change task details. This option may be slow when making changes in large maps. If "Adaptive Simple (Fast) "is selected, only the parent topics of the focus topic will be updated when task detail changes are made to the Journal Tab. Whilst much faster than "Comprehensive", this form of automation will fail to update dates of related topics (as possible when Levelling is enabled).

Fixes:

• Levelling implementation of "references" now correctly supports Start-Start (SS) configuration.
• Levelling "continue date" now correctly resets at sub topic levels.
• MM7 Add-in no-longer creates duplicate (redundant) Publish and Topic Update buttons in the Ribbon if MM restarted.
• TPAssist Console "tab" buttons are no longer disabled when tab has focus.
• Journal Tab now correctly handles a "blank" duration.
• Journal note created when Auto 100% used incorrectly used "Dimmed Callout" instead of "Dimmed Topic".
• Journal Tab - Outlook Integration "private" button wasn't changing Outlook item.

TPAssist 2007 Update History

TPAssist 2007 product update history can now be found via the Check For Updates features from the Help window or via our web site:

http://www.tpassist.com/Support/CheckForUpdates.aspx

TPAsssist 2007 Update: MindManager 6 Users

An update to TPAssist 2007 has been made available for Download. This update will resolve the "add-in has been disabled" issue experienced by some owners of MindManager 6.



After installing the update, you will need to re-enable TPAssist 2007 from Mindmanager 6's Tool's Menu --> "Add-Ins..."





The issue was "introduced" inadvertently during an installer cleanup just before launch on the 31st of last month. It was overlooked that MindManager 6 doesn't automatically include the MindManager Primary Interop Assembly (PIA) as is the case now with MindManager 7.