During open coding, researchers may create many codes, which, in hindsight, vary greatly in their scope and level of abstraction. Creative Coding effectively supports the creative process in which these codes are generated, sorted, and organized, and in which a hierarchical code structure is created based on the relationships between codes. The function provides a large working surface on which you can move codes and form meaningful groups. You can place codes that belong together next to one another, insert parent codes, rename codes and adjust their color, and create a logical structure. As a rule, this results after a long period of open coding and working with the codes.

The functionality of Creative Coding is fully integrated in MAXMaps and is carried out in three steps:

First, drag the codes you wish to work with from the Code System onto the work surface of MAXMaps.

Next, group and organize the codes, create parent and subcodes, create new codes if necessary, and adjust the color of the codes as desired.

Finally, transfer the changed to the existing Code System.