Clones nodes
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The Nodes Clones feature allows to make multiple clones of a node inside a map.
Take this like having one-same-node appearing in multiple places of the map - its always the same node, but appears cloned in those multiple places. If you change any of the clones, all the other clones will also change. Like one same node, cloned in multiple places.
Cloned nodes are marked with a small-rectangle in the left-side, and work inside of one-same map (inter-map clones are not possible)
Cloned nodes were introduced in freeplane 1.5
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How to clone a node
It is like copy/paste, only that you do Paste Clone [Ctrl-D] (instead of paste [Ctrl-V])
Quick-resume: how to clone a node
- select node to clone
- Edit/Copy/Copy [Ctrl-C]
- select destination, where to put the clone
- Edit/Paste Clone [Ctrl-D]
- Notice that cloned-nodes are marked with a small-rectangle
- Select any cloned-node, and change it
- Notice that when one clone is changed, all clones of it also change
- Select any cloned-node, right-click in it, Goto
- Notice the list of other related cloned-nodes, to where you can "Goto"
Unclone a node
If you have a cloned-node that you want to simply make it a copied node (and not a clone anymore, just a copy), then you can unclone the node.
Quick-resume: how to unclone a node
- select node to unclone
- Edit/Unclone
Subtree: how to clone a node with or without cloning its subtree =
When a node is cloned, its subtree is also cloned along, by default. However, there is an option to only 'clone a single node without cloning its subtree
Quick-resume: how to clone a single node without subtree
- select node to be cloned (without subtree)
- Edit/Copy/Copy node (single) [Ctrl + Shift + C]
- Notice that to clone-with-subtree we use Edit/Copy/Copy, but to
clone-without-subtree we use Edit/Copy/Copy node (single)
- select destination, where to put the clone
- Edit/Paste Clone [Ctrl-D]
- Notice that only the single node was cloned, and not its subtree
Connectors inside a cloned-subtree are cloned
- Connectors that are "inside" of a cloned-subtree are cloned
- Connecters that go "outside" of a cloned-subtree are not cloned
All cloned-nodes share the same content (text, style, etc..). But, each freeplane node (even cloned-nodes) have an unique NODE_ID.
For more info about Scripting Api and cloned-nodes, see http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Scripting:_API_Changes
