Dear All
It 's good that this issue has been raised again. This is far from the first posting about the need to index mmp files. A Google search shows dozens of hits related to this topic.
I have also written to X1 last year, and the year before, presenting the case. I noticed that back in May 2004, Mark responded:
'X1 does not index or display MindJet's MindManager files and we have no plans to do so. We do get the request a lot and we pass them on to our partner, which makes the file viewers (Stellent), but we can't guarantee they'll add support for new file formats. Perhaps we'll write our own...
'Another user immediately posted this response:
'I also use MindManager and I reported a problem to X1 that they are looking at. If you look inside a MindManager file (using a text editor) you will see that all of the text that you have entered on your branches is actually viewable and searchable as normal text (although there are lots of hex characters in the file as well denoting internal MindMap features). Thus any text search tool can find you entries in the MindMap. Unfortunately X1 seems to determine that because of the HEX characters that it isn't indexable and thus doesn't bother. What we need is the ability to define an extension and force it to TEXT index the file (this is what ScopeWare does (
www.scopeware.com) and other document indexing programs do.
Once X1 have sorted that out then the whole world opens as many programs out there that use a proprietry storage system still store text in the clear.'
Back in 2004, the X1 staff including senior management used to respond with rapidity to such postings. Mindmapping will continue its growth across academic and professional as well as business settings, and MindJet is the industry leader in this software application. I strongly support your posting and urge X1 to respond, either directly to Stellent or with a proprietary solution.
Maurice Eisenbruch
