Manipulating the graph: Expand nodes
Expanding a node displays all the nodes connected to it.
Generally, you can do it in three different ways:
- Double-click a node.
- Right-click a node then click the Expand button in the context menu (see Expand options below for details).
- Select one or more nodes, then click the Expand button in the property panel on the left.
###Expand options The Expand button in the context menu and property panel shows the following options:
- All neighbors: Expand all the connected nodes.
- Category list (In the image below, the category list includes MARKET and CITY): If the number of neighbors is less than the
advanced.expandThreshold
oradvanced.supernodeThreshold
, expand all connected nodes of the selected category. If not, the Selective Expand popin is opened. - More options: Open the Selective Expand popin.
##Selective Expand The Selective Expand feature prevents adding too many neighbors at once. The popin provides options to:
- select a specific category and edge type;
- specify the degree of connection.
- Neighbors (default).
- Most connected: will return nodes with the highest number of connections.
- Least connected: will return nodes with the lowest number of connections.
- change the maximum number of retrieved neighbors.
###Nodes that exceed the expand threshold
When expanding nodes that have more edges connected to it than advanced.expandThreshold
but less than advanced.superNodeThreshold
, you see the following Selective Expand popin:
Selecting only one category allows you to expand nodes of that category and select a specific edge type it is connected to. In the example below, we select node CITY and edge type INVESTED_IN:
Selecting multiple categories allows you to expand nodes of those categories without the option of selecting the edge types. By default, all edges are selected.
###Nodes that exceed the super node threshold In the visualization, a super node is marked with a plus badge along with the number of connections it has.
When expanding nodes that have more node neighbors than advanced.superNodeThreshold
, you see the following Selective Expand popin. Here the popin has the full list of relationships and categories to expand:
Note however that it is not possible to expand multiple nodes at the same time when at least one of the selected nodes is a super node.