FreeMind Plugin

Very nice

Can you please attach an example mm file?

Awesome! How hard is a java 1.5 version to achieve?

Fairy nough - we're going through an enormous redesign period right now and this is exactly what I need. I'll ask one of our java people to check it out if they have time.

Thanks for a great plugin, Jason.

FYI, license changed from ASL 2.0 to GPL 2 at the request of the Freemind authors.

How can I build it? It requires the com.atlassian.confluence:confluence-plugin-support Maven2 artifact, but I miss it.

Its been a while, but I finally had some time to muck with this more... still not sure how the whole GPL fluff works in this case, but I did a few things:

• remove the bin dist of the plugin
• updated the plugin's build to fetch the required bits and build a jar
• changed the plugins license back to ASL

So, its up to the user who wants to use this, to download the src, run the simple build and then install the jar. They should know that Freemind's license is GPL, but this plugin (the java code, velocity macros and build configuration), which does not invoke any Freemind code is licensed as ASL.

Sucks... just makes it harder for folks that want to use the plugin to actually use it (ie. can't include it in the repo client's metadata).

I suppose a better solution would be hack up a plugin configuration action which would ask the user if they want to install the GPL code, and then reference that downloaded binary when generating the HTML to render the applet... though still not sure if that is legit or not.

Anyways, I think this is closer to legit now, as the java plugin code is ASL, and that java plugin code does not import any GPL code (only renders HTML). Only gray area is that for the plugin to work it needs to have the GPL Freemind jar inside of it... but since there is no more binary distribution of that archive, any licensing issues are assumed by the user when the build/install the jar.

Just curious - has there been any progress on a plugin with edit capability? I can think of some ugly work-arounds, such as scaffold forms to generate .mm files, but hope to avoid this.

It seems that macro determines base url incorrectly in case of front proxy.
I have installed Confluence behind Apache and the following code the most probably retrieves internal URL (http://localhost:8080) instead of external (https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

    private String getBaseURL() {
        HttpServletRequest request = ServletActionContext.getRequest();
        if (request == null) {
            return null;
        }
        
        return request.getScheme() + "://" + request.getServerName() +
            ((request.getServerPort() != 80) ? (":" + request.getServerPort()) : "") +
            request.getContextPath();
    }

I'd suggest to use an external Confluence base url (configured in Administration -> General Configuration)

Are there any plans to make this plug-in compatible with Confluence 2.5.x?

Thanks,
Mike

I just built this and installed on Confluence 2.6.1, I had to mod the pom, which is attached. I also had to harcode the name in the atlassian-plugin.xml, it didn't resolve the pom.name properly for some reason.

Cheers,

Yesterday I installed the FreeMind Plugin. I could see the mindmap (VIP.mm) and everything worked fine.
Today I started Confluence and I only saw a grey box with a red X. In the preview mode of the page i could see the following error: mindmap: Unable to determin the base URL.
What can I do to fix the problem?

Thanks,

Is this plugin running on Confluence 2.8 (Product Versions above only go up to 2.6.x)?

Thanks for all answers! 

Does this online notation guide exist online. If so where?

Usage

For definitive usage, see the online notation guide (in the Advanced Formatting section).

Nice one! Congratulations folks!

Just one small, little, tiny question... Using the software is very intuitive. What if my future map (..errr...applet?) will have to have just 300x900 on the web page?

Where do I set the size of the map? Tools->Preferences->Appearance->Map-X-size Map-Y-size not working... (NOT the applet's size...)

I am asking that because from the very beginning of the map design, it's dimensions are big. When on the web page, I am setting the applet's size at 300x900, but the scroll tabs are there, my map content it's at its place but ...overflows

Help?

Thanx.

I've seen the last comment before me....June 18th...I hope it's not 2007!

Anybody out there? Please?

Hi,

good news: I tried to build the freemind plugin with Freemind 0.9 RC1. It runs in Confluence 2.9 and 2.10 without problems.

I will attach the updated pom in a few seconds. I also applied the fix from Louis Adiputra.

I tried the using the pom mentioned by Andy Brook above and getting this problem when running mvn install:

[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.
Missing:
----------
1) com.atlassian.confluence:confluence:jar:2.6.0
  Try downloading the file manually from the project website.
  Then, install it using the command:
      mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.atlassian.confluence -DartifactId=confluence -Dversion=2.6.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file
  Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there:
      mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.atlassian.confluence -DartifactId=confluence -Dversion=2.6.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file -Durl=[ur
l] -DrepositoryId=[id]
  Path to dependency:
        1) com.atlassian.confluence.contrib.freemind:freemind:jar:1.0.3
        2) com.atlassian.confluence:confluence:jar:2.6.0
----------
1 required artifact is missing.
for artifact:
  com.atlassian.confluence.contrib.freemind:freemind:jar:1.0.3
from the specified remote repositories:
  central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2),
  atlassian-contrib (http://svn.atlassian.com/svn/public/contrib/repository/maven2)

Any ideas how I can get my hands on that jar?

See http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Flash+SWFObject+Macro?focusedCommentId=183468457#comment-183468457 for instructions on using the visorfreemind flash viewer

This plugin does not seem to be working on Confluence 3.0. Are there any plans to update it? Is anyone working on it?

Its useful enough to warrant building properly and putting in the pluging repo. Licensing issues? I wonder if they can be worked around...

I've created a branch and added support for the flash browser

Build instructions

Same old:

svn export https://svn.atlassian.com/svn/public/contrib/confluence/freemind-plugin/tags/1.0.4-rodogu freemind-plugin
cd freemind-plugin
mvn install

Usage

• New parameter browser to indicate the what browser to use: applet (default) or flash
• You can pass other parameters to the flash browser, see example below:

Example

This map use the flash browser:

{mindmap:^awp.mm|browser=flash|mainNodeShape=rectangle|startCollapsedToLevel=1|width=900px|border=1px|bgColor=#EEEEEE}

Caveats

Only works on 2.8 or newer

Hi,

I have downloaded source code and packaged it, but during time loading of applet is failing. Can anyone please help me why applet loading is failed.

Regards,

Sreedhar H.

Dont mind, problem has been resolved.

Regards,

Sreedhar H.

Hi,

I have downloaded, build and deployed "Roberto Dominiguez" source code, but I am getting runtime errors, like applet is not getting downloaded.

when i see the applet console, below exception was reported. Could anyone please help me in resolving this issue. And also flash component is also not getting downloaded.

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at java.util.StringTokenizer.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.StringTokenizer.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at freemind.modes.ModesCreator.getAllModes(ModesCreator.java:50)
    at freemind.controller.Controller.<init>(Controller.java:124)
    at freemind.main.FreeMindApplet.init(FreeMindApplet.java:242)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Hi,

I am trying to build the plugin. I am using the the repo http://maven.atlassian.com/repository/public (see Andy Brooks' comment). But Maven complains about missing an artifact (jta-1.0.1.jar)

I installed it with mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=jta -DartifactId=jta -Dversion=1.0.1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file, then I tried to install the freemind-plugin with mvn install. The same error apeared again. Since you might have noticed I am not that familiar with maven. Is there a way to get the jar for the plugin? What is my mistake?

Thanks, Meysam

Hi,

is this plugin working with Confluence 2.10.x?

Regards,

Stefan

To get v1.0.4 to build, I had to:

• drop the example settings.xml file from here into ~/.m2
• add these elements to the pom.xml, where one would expect:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-confluence-plugin</artifactId>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <configuration>
        <productVersion>${atlassian.product.version}</productVersion>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

<properties>
        <atlassian.product.version>3.0.1</atlassian.product.version>
</properties>

Now I've got mindmaps in our confluence instance...very cool!

(If only we could edit them, too...

Hi,
I use confluence 2.10 and freemind plugin 1.0.4 from "Roberto Dominiguez". My mindmap was created with freemind 0.8.1. Everything works fine.
I attached the file to our wiki page but location is on a different server than the applet allowing others to edit the mindmap (clicking on attachment opens the mindmap file in Freemind for editing). Unfortunately I run then into the security exception mentioned above (=>Could not open URL file....access denied) when rendering the mindmap.
Having the mindmap file on the same server will open the file as "Read Only" (=> save as...,attaching the new saved file again into wiki are kind of annoying steps).
Does anybody know a neat workaround for this or a macro which can handle this.
For Office documents confluence offers a "View file macro" where users are able to open the document for editing in their office application.
Something similar would be great.
Many thanks,

Adnan