Tag's + Power Filter = Highlight tree with different line color
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Hello everyone,
one idea how you can improve your power filter (from my point of view).
Lets assume following:
More or less complicated map with some customer tag's at the lowest-level topics. Now you want to show the "solution" for customer A and customer B. You can use the power filter for that, but it will show the resulting topics without any differentiation. A good solution would be to use a different line colour (down to general topic) to show in a better way your results. Like a "red line" through your map/project.
Using colored tag's (which are shown in the map) will not help from my point of view because showing all tags will "confuse" the map and distract the audience.
Files:
MM20_map_power...
You can achieve this effect to some degree using a combination of Power Filters and SmartRules.
First, you will need to use tags, icons or topic properties to identify each client's topics, but you can subsequently hide any of these using Show/Hide if you don't want to clutter the map. Then write a SmartRule that will use the tag or property as a trigger to apply the topic line colour or other effect you want for the first client, and repeat this for the second and any subsequent client.
The line colour of the topics relating to each client should then reflect the SmartRule effect, for example, client 1's topics will be red and those of client 2 will be green. You can then apply a Power Filter to fade all the topics which don't have a client number (note that you will get slightly different results depending on what you have used to store the client number (see attached example).
However, what is much more difficult to do is to change the line colour of the parent topics if they have child topics that belong to more than one client. If all the topics in each branch belong to only one client then it is possible to do this, but if there are more than one client's tasks in a branch you would need multi-coloured or multiple lines in different colours.
You can achieve this effect to some degree using a combination of Power Filters and SmartRules.
First, you will need to use tags, icons or topic properties to identify each client's topics, but you can subsequently hide any of these using Show/Hide if you don't want to clutter the map. Then write a SmartRule that will use the tag or property as a trigger to apply the topic line colour or other effect you want for the first client, and repeat this for the second and any subsequent client.
The line colour of the topics relating to each client should then reflect the SmartRule effect, for example, client 1's topics will be red and those of client 2 will be green. You can then apply a Power Filter to fade all the topics which don't have a client number (note that you will get slightly different results depending on what you have used to store the client number (see attached example).
However, what is much more difficult to do is to change the line colour of the parent topics if they have child topics that belong to more than one client. If all the topics in each branch belong to only one client then it is possible to do this, but if there are more than one client's tasks in a branch you would need multi-coloured or multiple lines in different colours.
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