Notes on modifications to get Sharepoint to recognise MindMap file types

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/mindmanager.aspx

gives these instructions but the paths were not the same for my SharePoint 2007 installation. So I modified these instructions as:

Server Configuration:

Open the file
Local_Drive:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATEXMLDocIcon.xml

Add the following line within the ByExtension element in DocIcon.xml:

Save DocIcon.xml

Copy the file MindManager.gif to the
Local_Drive:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12TEMPLATEIMAGES directory
See note below on how to get the MindManager.gif file

Add the following MIME type to IIS using the IIS Manager (Select Mime Types -> Add)

Extension: .mmp .mmap .mmpt .mmat .mmmp .mmas
MIME type: application/vnd.mindjet.mindmanager

MindManager Icon

The icon file for MindManager in V8 includes a variety of sizes of icons. The default is 48px square while 16px square is really what we want for a standard Sharepoint file listing.

So I used IconFX to extract the 16px icon as a .gif file and used that instead.

MindMap 8 Icon

Finally

Issue an iisreset on the Sharepoint web server to get the new config uploaded.