The first release after the holidays - the first release in 2008. Since we plan to finish our BETA in the first half of 2008 this is a pure bugfix release. As always, the full list of changes and bugfixes can be found in our Changelog.
The most important change this time is, that our user database now works case-insensitive. This means that a different upper/lower-case spelling of the same username now refers to the same account, which makes logging in easier (you don’t have to remember how you spelled your name on signup), and reduces likelihood of confusion. Unfortunately we had to rename some usernames which violated against this new setup. The affected users have been informed.
In the end I would like to spotlight our new FAQ which, like the changelog, could be found in our Google Group. If you are missing any important answers in the FAQ please don’t hesitate to let us know.
A really nice application. The only essential feature that seems to be missing is the ability to relate topics in different parts of the hierarchy. The thing that differentiates a mindmap from a visual outline is groupings and connections that aren’t hierarchical.
Comment by Jeff on Sat, 09.02.2008 - 16:01
Currently our mindmap is strictly hierachical. But the request for non hierachical links between nodes is the most demanded one - So we’ll probably address this after the BETA.
Comment by Stefan Schuster on Tue, 12.02.2008 - 18:55
I prefer this application above other like apps, but the link feature is presenting a real problem. We are attempting to map our research and add links to journal articles. The URLs are not recognized by Mind42. This is an essential requirement for our project. Can this be fixed?
Sample URL:
https://ezproxy.royalroads.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=20262849&site=ehost-live
Comment by Tene on Sat, 16.02.2008 - 23:41
thanks for this great tool. we started working with it just today, we all love it. but we found a bug, and it makes me feel uncomfortable. we can’t export the mindmap, after pressing export button we see this error page:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: getOutputStream() has already been called for this response
org.apache.catalina.connector.Response.getWriter(Response.java:604)
org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.getWriter(ResponseFacade.java:198)
javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.getWriter(ServletResponseWrapper.java:112)
at.irian.molokini.server.servlets.BaseServlet.sendSystemError(BaseServlet.java:108)
at.irian.molokini.server.servlets.BaseServlet.processRequest(BaseServlet.java:68)
at.irian.molokini.server.servlets.MindMapServlet.doGet(MindMapServlet.java:28)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at.irian.molokini.server.servlets.UserFilter.doFilter(UserFilter.java:44)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:164)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90)
org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:406)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.10 logs.
Comment by Marco on Tue, 19.02.2008 - 16:24
@Tene: We’ll check what went wrong with validation there, but I can imagine that this is just because of the strange URL. Normally parameters of a URL should be encoded, so that no ambiguities occur. This isn’t the case forthe given URL. If I would be a browser I would ask me: Should this be one paramter “url” with the value “http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=20262849&site=ehost-live”, or should it be multiple paramters as follows:
url: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx
direct: true
db: aph
AN: 20262849
site:ehost-live
So I guess, that especially the second question mark could be a problem… And from a given point on, as developers of Mind42 we have to ask us if we should continue to add validation exceptions for invalid URLs, because if adding too many of them there is no sense within validation at all…
@Marco: Could you please send user & map name to mind42@irian.at so that we can check this?
Comment by Stefan Schuster on Tue, 19.02.2008 - 16:38
@Stefan
Done, thanks in advance for fixing the problem.
Comment by Marco on Wed, 20.02.2008 - 16:46
I’d like to see these things:
Printing feature
Export to PDF
Besides that a great application!
Fabian
Comment by Fabian on Tue, 26.02.2008 - 7:18
@Fabian - This feature is on its way…
Comment by Stefan Schuster on Wed, 27.02.2008 - 9:43
Great Tool, but I’d like the text in the bubbles not automatically centered. It would be usefull, if i could choose the alignment manually like the color and the font size.
Thanks and Great job so far
Marcel
Comment by Marcel on Wed, 12.03.2008 - 3:34
I’m having problems as a new user.
Is there a manual for the system, or a help screen?
Comment by Steve on Sat, 29.03.2008 - 1:58
There is a limited and slightly outdated help available at http://mind42.com/help
Comment by sschuster on Wed, 02.04.2008 - 15:19
Excellent tool! I just found about it from mindmapping.typepad.com and tried it out. Congratulations!
Will it remain free when out of Beta, or will it be subscription-based? I am interested in professional uses.
Comment by Alexander on Sat, 05.04.2008 - 20:21
Mind42 works great on Firefox (Mac/PC) or Safari, but I have found now on two Windows machines that a large (although not complex) map I created causes Internet Explorer 6 to go to 100% CPU a lot and then becomes unresponsive… Both machines are in my work environment, where I am trying to push Mind42 as a useful tool. The work environment does include proxies, but my Mac with Safari works fine. Any thoughts? maybe it is a one-off with this particular map…
Comment by Ruairí on Thu, 10.04.2008 - 12:01
Mind42 generally works better on newer browsers: IE7 works better than IE6, Safari 3 works better than Safari 2 and FF3 works better than FF2 (although we’re not fully supporting FF3 at the moment - but its faster than FF2
If you think that this probably could be really connected with your map you can send us a mail to mind42@irian.at which includes your username and the map name to check that.
Comment by sschuster on Fri, 18.04.2008 - 11:05