.. _tips:

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tips
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Some helpful tips, tricks and download links.

Links
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**Mapperidea Icons**: https://static.academy.mapperidea.io/mapperideaIcons.zip

**FreePlane**: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/

**FreeMapper**: https://static.academy.mapperidea.io/freemapper.tgz

**Introduction to Mapperidea**: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXzWKf_G9upsryGhq4_0tIY-sOonEPb2M

**Mapperidea Fundamentals**: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXzWKf_G9upsMSxWVP5S7lIollfh7-epf

To add your own icons and or use Mapperidea Icons on Freeplane:
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The menu **Tools -> Open user directory** takes you to the "freeplane_userdir". 
Create the directory icons if necessary and copy your own icons to it.

Restart Freeplane if necessary, you can now use your own icons in your maps.

To add/change shortcut to a icon:
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The menu **Tools -> Preferences -> Keystrokes** takes you to a window with all 
available icons. Look for the icons and place the desired shortcut.

To change a function hotkey/keystroke:
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**Tools > Assign Hot Key**, do not close the box that will appear, select the menu 
item you desire to change the keystroke and input the new hotkey.

Some of the hot keys we use for the icons
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   * - **Icon Name**
     - **Hot Key**
   * - bullet_key
     - k
   * - Descriptor.bean
     - b
   * - Descriptor.class
     - c
   * - Descriptor.grouping
     - g
   * - element
     - e
   * - elementOutput
     - x
   * - Mapping.directMap
     - h
   * - Mapping.directToField
     - d
   * - Mapping.manyToOne
     - m
   * - Mapping.oneToMany
     - o
   * - Mapping.oneToOne
     - r
   * - Package
     - p
   * - tag_green
     - v
   * - tag_yellow
     - y
   * - textNode
     - t