Select a traversal strategy

You can select a traversal strategy to determine which nodes and edges are traversed and displayed in a diagram.

Note If you change the traversal strategy, the diagram is completely redrawn and explored nodes are removed.

Steps

  1. Open a diagram.
  2. On the diagram toolbar, click the traversal strategy box and select a traversal strategy.

    Traversal strategyDescription
    End-to-end

    For the start node, Collibra 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.