The General properties form

The General properties form is used to define the overall look and feel of your diagram.

This pane appears when you edit a diagram view and you have not selected a node or edge.

Field Description
Layout

Select the layout of your diagram view.

Diagram layout Description
Flow / Context

Nodes and edges are shown in a flow and a context region.

In the flow region, nodes are shown mostly from left to right.

The context region is shown above the flow region. The edges that begin or end with a node in the context region are shown with less emphasis (thinner and light gray). You can choose which nodes are in the context region by selecting the Context checkbox in the node properties form.

If there are no nodes in the context region, this layout produces the same result as Hierarchy left -> right.

Note For an edge between a flow node and a context node, the 'from' node must be in the flow region and the 'to' node in the context region.
Hierarchy left - right Nodes and edges are shown in a flow, predominantly from left to right. This is the default layout.
Hierarchy top - down Nodes and edges are shown in a flow, from top to bottom.
Hierarchy bottom - up Nodes and edges are shown in a flow, from bottom to top.
Circular

Nodes and edges are arranged in a circular fashion.

Boxing nodes are not supported in this layout, therefore:

  • The diagrampicture is completely redrawn.
  • The explored nodes are removed from the diagrampicture.
  • The nodes expand or collapse to their initial state.
  • Returning to a layout that supports boxing nodes completely redraws the diagrampicture.
Radial

Nodes and edges are shown in a radial fashion, with no overlaps, few edge crossings and few bends.

Boxing nodes are not supported in this layout. This has the same consequences as described for the Circular layout.
Smart Organic Nodes and edges are distributed in a well-balanced manner, with few edge crossings.
Traversal strategy

Indicates which nodes and edges have to be traversed and displayed.

Traversal strategy Description
End-to-end

For the start node, Collibra Data Intelligence Platform traverses the relations of the types that occur in the diagram in all directions, incoming and outgoing, and adds all the nodes and edges that it encounters to the diagram.

For each encountered node, Collibra traverses the relations only in the same direction as that in which they were encountered. If a node was encountered while traversing an outgoing relation, Collibra looks for outgoing relations of that node and vice versa. This behavior is like traversing a hierarchy.

This is the default traversal strategy.
Upstream

For the start node, only the incoming edges are traversed and shown.

For each node encountered, only the incoming edges are traversed.
Downstream

For the start node, only the outgoing edges are traversed and shown.

For each node encountered, only the outgoing edges are traversed.
Complete

For the start node, the relations are traversed in both directions. All encountered nodes and edges are added to the diagram.

For each encountered node, both incoming and outgoing edges are traversed. Essentially, this means that each encountered node is treated as a start node.

Warning This strategy can result in a very large diagram that can take a long time to load.
Overview

Select to show the overview inset in the initial diagram.
Labels Select to show the edge and node labels in the initial diagram.
Legend Select to show the legend in the initial diagram.
Preview Select to show the preview in the initial diagram.
Max node label length

Type the maximum number of characters for node labels. If a label is longer than this value, it is truncated.

Type 0 if you always want to show the entire label.

The default setting is 50.
Max edge label length

Type the maximum number of characters for edge labels. If a label is longer than this value, it is truncated.

Type 0 if you always want to show the entire label.

The default setting is 30.