Business Graphics Discussion

Is it possible to dublicate entire branches of a mind map?

BrigitteR000604 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:38:08 GMT

Hi there,

does anybody know if it is possible to dublicate entire branches of a mind map and attach it to another topic (not move it - it should remain at the previous branch and additionally I want to attach the same branch to another topic)?

I have many processes in which the second or third step is the same and I would like to avoid writing the same again and again if that´s possible.

Thanks for an answer!

Brigitte

Adding Markers to Maps

JerryJ000071 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:54:06 GMT

I want to add a push pin marker for every location zip code I have on an Excel spreadsheet. I know how to open a live map and size it but I can't get the markers to appear once I've pointed the program to the spreadsheet. It just freezes up and never let's me point out which column to pull the zip data from or anything else.

Dependencies

abeworld — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:14:33 GMT

After i click on 'Gantt Chart' in the smart panel, the mind map gets converted into a Gantt Chart in the main window. However, in the Smart Panel, under the 'Tasks' tab, there are only two options - add task and remove task. Plus there is no 'dependency' tab. Any ideas? the panel does not look like the one seen in the demo videos. missing tabs.

Sales territory maps - Smart Draw 10

Em55014 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:11:16 GMT

I am a new user and am only using the demo/trial version of Smart Draw 10 so far. I am mainly wanting to use the software to map out sales territories. I have gotten to the point where I can import addresses to be marked on my map. I can zoom in as long as I don't import it into Smart Draw. I am having a problem getting my entire map to import into Smart Draw. Parts always get cut off? Is there a way to zoom in to see details once you have imported your map?? And how do I get the whole map on one page?

Thanks, any help would be appreciated. I am trying to determine if it would be worthwhile to purchase this software. I am a little frustrated at this point. I can only import 100 addresses, I don't know if that is because it is a trial version? I have thousands of addresses that need to be mapped.

Thanks, Em55014

SmartDraw 2010`

CarolT000587 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:07:41 GMT

I have searched my newest version of SmartDraw 2010 for maps of cities and have not found a simple map of cities with in each State. Does this exist somewhere I have not yet looked? I do not want to import from Google as it has too much information. Thanks. Carol

Is it possible to mirror a clipart image horizontally?

DerekE000885 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:10:36 GMT

Hello

I'd like to use the car clipart images but they're left hand drive so not much use to me here in the UK. Is it possible to "flip" the images and save them back to clipart? or failing that, just flip them when I use them?

Best regards

Derek

Read Me - SmartDraw's Encyclopedia of Business Graphics

Aaron Stannard — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:11:04 GMT

Please read this before you ask any questions about specific business graphic types.

SmartDraw's Encyclopeda of Business Graphics (link) can usually answer all of the following questions about all of the most common business graphics types:

What's this diagram used for?
What is this diagram?
What are the best practices for using this diagram?

If the Encyclopedia of Business Graphics cannot answer your questions then feel free to post questions here!

Is it possible to embed data?

Motorola — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:37:54 GMT

Hello.

I'm using SmartDraw to create flow charts and process maps.

I'd like to embed data into a box, so a window pops-up when you click on it. Is it possible?

Thanks for your help.

Vincent

Mind map to Gantt (to PERT?)

smartdraw155 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:34:20 GMT

Dear All

Hi, I am a very new to SmartDraw and am not sure if this is teh correct place to post a question. Please let me know if it is the wrong place and I'll post it at the right place.

I must be hornest here that I have not started to use it yet as the download for the free trial is very slow and only last 7 days, hence progressing slow here. Now, I knew from reading the pdfs that mind map can produce Gantt and changing Gantt changes teh mind map. Can PERT be produced automatically? If not is there some org chart, i.e. fundamental idea organizing templates such mind map that produce PERT Gantt and PERT automatically?

Thank You.

Regards,

Chan

How to select US and Canada holidays in one calendar.

immipathan — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:25:06 GMT

Hello every one

I was trying to make calendar that includes all US and Canada holidays i was only able to select one at a time. can some onw help to sole this or its a limitations that you can only take one or all.

second how can i export all months in one file or do i have to export or print all months one by one... or this is also a limitaton that you can only print one month a time.

Third and last question is can this software work on terminal server mode on server 2003 or 2008.

pleasehelp people.

SmartDraw and OOA/OOD

tahima — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:58:59 GMT

Hello all,

I am a newbie in SmartDraw, I have to down it and I use OOA/OOD (Coad and Yourdan) to build my graph.......but it appears that SmartDraw doesn't support OOA/OOD (Coad and Yourdan) !!!???

have I to install any thing ? or have I to choose an other tool ??

if I have to choose an other tool please, can you lead me ??

thank you

data flow diagrams

anand — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:32:44 GMT

with smartdraw will i be able to draw data flow diagrams..

SmartDraw 2009 - Export

mamat — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:47:56 GMT

Hi there,

According to Knowledge Base Article #1046, the SmartDraw 2009 can export to the following file formats:

Windows Metafile (WMF)
Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
Bitmap (BMP)
PC PaintBrush (PCX)
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
(Includes accompanying GIF, PNG or JPG)
Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
AutoCAD (DXF - Version 14)
Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Adobe Illustrator (AI - Version 6)
MicroGrafx Draw (DRW)

However, the list is not the same when we click the SmartDraw red button and choose Export. Two formats which are of interest to me; AutoCAD and AI, are not there.

How do we get these into the list?

Regards

SmartDraw Output in Adobe Illustrator

mamat — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:43:43 GMT

Hello,

Our client does a lot of works using AI. He intends to use the images and symbols in SmartDraw to be included in his work. What's the best way to this?

Mamat

Reading Excel files to create business graphics

KeithM137 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:21:30 GMT

Can SmartDraw read Excel files to create pie charts, line graphs, etc.?

What is "Join Paths"?

AndreasS301 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:45:00 GMT

Hello,

in the FlowChart SmartPanel is a function "Join Paths". What is this function doing and how is it used?

I cannot find anything about it in the User's Guide or somewhere on the web site.

Andreas

Newsletter Templates

mamat — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:26:17 GMT

Hi,

I want to use the Newsletter template available in SmartDraw 2009 to create a company's newsletter. But I can only export 1 page to PDF. If I want to have multiple pages of newsletter, how do I go about doing it? If I have 4 pages of newsletter created in SmartDraw, I also want 4 pages in a single file of PDF. Right now, I do not know how. Please help.

mamat

Save to Visio

sbumbalo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:40:59 GMT

Is there a way to save a SmartDraw SDR file to Visio?

Using the Maps: Using a data table to define Counties

RoyRumaner — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:40:08 GMT

We have a number of salesmen that are assigned their sales territories based on counties across states. Is it possible to use SmartDraw 2009 to outline these territories using a data import? If so, what is the format of such a file (I would assume Excel would be easiest) and how do we get it to work? We would also like to be able to indicate each salesman using a different color outline too.

Please email any ideas/suggestions to me at roy_rumaner at enproinc dot com

Thank you

Importing Outlines

DuncanW391 — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:02:53 GMT

I have been using Smart Draw very happily for quite a while now and am using mind maps quite a bit at the moment.

I can export my mind map as an outline (in the 2009 version anyway) and that is good. However, I cannot see any option to IMPORT an outline into mind maps (or anything else for that matter). I think that importing an outline could save me a lot of time.

Best wishes

Duncan

Justified alignment missing

AlexT000558 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:55:38 GMT

I basicly use SmartDraw for design my business newsletter. I've been doing this with MS Word and later with Acrobat Professional. Now I can only think about using SmartDraw. I like to use thin and large textcolumns witch I set in justified alignment. I miss this tool and I would like to know if there is any possibility to add this button.

Many thanks,

Alex

map mind spacing

Dave — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:24:20 GMT

I am new to this. I create a mind map and when I move a topic its link is borken. Dragging the topic to where I want it linked sometimes links and sometimes does not. When it links - if I move it to make more space - it's disconnected again :{

Am I missing something or can I not place things where I'd like them?

Dave

Mind Maps - For Communication or Organization?

Aaron Stannard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:05:48 GMT

Here's a question I'd like the answer to: if you use mind maps, do you use them primarly for organizing your own ideas and thoughts or do you use them primarly to communicate?

I'm probably going to write a Working Smarter article on the subject at some point in time but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask :p

Personally, I use them almost exclusively for organization.

Logo Design...?

StephenB772 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:08:07 GMT

Hi... Is it possible within SmartDraw to create a logo for website use please...? Any assistance would be appreciated - Thank you - Steve

problem with smartdraw 2008

al-sanaa — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:51:15 GMT

I used smart draw to draw UML and others diagrams through my study in the university.

Now my husband needs it to design irrigation systems because he is an agricultural engineer.

I was using smartdraw 2007 and my husband too. But after installing smart draw 2008 we couldn't find the irrigation system library which we used it before in 2007 version.

So my question is how can we use irrigation system library in 2008 version????