Driving bCisive’s new Hide/Show functionality

Posted by Anna Cumming on July 31st, 2008 — Posted in bCisive, tips

Have you noticed the little + and - symbols in the bottom right corner of your bCisive map boxes?

Click on them and you can hide or reveal that box’s descendants: great if you want to focus your thinking or your collaborators’ attention on just one area of your map.

Hide and Show just got more powerful

You don’t have to show your whole hand at once any more. bCisive 1.0.5 introduced new options in the right-click menu’s Hide/Show area, letting you choose how many levels you’d like to reveal.

Streamline the process even further by choosing Fold Up Children. This sets the + symbol in the corner of each box to reveal only the next level of the branch, instead of all the box’s descendants.

This new control is particularly handy when you’re presenting a recommendation or explaining the rationale behind a decision. You can display the options considered…

 

… and then walk your audience through your thinking, revealing levels as you go… (click on thumbnails to see full-size maps)

…until you reach your recommendation or decision.

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What the bloggers are saying

Posted by Daniel Prager on July 31st, 2008 — Posted in bCisive

bCisive has not been out for long, but word is getting around. Here’s what three savvy bloggers have to say:

Steve Rothwell, a mind-mapper and consultant, is starting to catch the buzz:

I’ve just downloaded a trial of bCisive - a business decision making and diagramming tool. First impressions are very good.

When you run bCisive you are presented with a typical workspace in which to model the decision. However the way the workspace is designed has real impact and yet is fresh and clean.

Building a decision tree is quick and easy and I will experiment more with this. I see great potential for using this interactively in business meetings, workshops and group consultations.

Michael Sampson visited Austhink Software at our Fortress of Lucidity, and has blogged about his visit and about bCisive:

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