# XMind

## Collaborative Minds

### Task Info

XMind Pro is not good at clarifying thinking and managing complex information, but also project management. In taskinfo view, we can add more detailed inforamtion to a task. And it can help us to perform better on management. Actually, we can add people who is responsible for this task, start/end date, duration, task's priority, predecessors and the progress.

1. Select a topic, and open TaskInfo View by clicking "View - Task Info".
2. Then, we can see and change the following information in the view:
   - Task: This is the content of selected Task;
   - Assigned to: Select or input the people who are responsible for this task;
   - StartDate/EndDate: Select the proper date for this task. You can even set an exactly time if required;
   - Duration: This shows how many days you can finish this task. You can set it directly too.
   - Progress: Move the slide to change task progress;
   - Priority: Select proper priority level for this task in the drop-down list;
   - Predecessors: Click the plus button to add a predecessor to selected task.
   - Check Point: Enable this check box will now show Progress information in the Gantt Chart View.

Task Dependency

In a project, we always meet the requirement to insert a dependency relation among the tasks. Now, you can achieve this in XMind with few simple steps.

1. Select task A
2. Open TaskInfo View by clicking "View - Show TaskInfo" from the menu
3. Scroll down to Predecessors field, and click Plus button

4. Choose the task B in the coming Task Dependency dialog
5. Confirm the Dependency type,
   - Finish to Start, Task A can't be started until Task B is finished.
   - Start to Finsih, Task A can't be finished until Task B is started.
   - Start to Start, Task A can't be started until Task B is started.
   - Finish to Finish, Task A can't be finished until Task B is finished.
6. Click ok to finish

Task Dependency Dialog

Note: All information added in taskinfo view will be shown in Gantt View.

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