Highlighting connections on your chart

When you have a list of connected items in the List Most Connected Pane, you can use that list to navigate these items on your chart surface, and highlight information.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have the List Most Connected pane open, and that you have some results to view. For more information, see List the contents of your chart.

About this task

When you display items in the List Most Connected pane, each row contains the following information:
  • Highlighting status - The color that is being used to highlight the connections on the chart surface.
  • Icon - The icon that is being used to identify the entity.
  • Label - The label text.
  • Count - The number of links or link records of the selected type in the view.
  • Distribution - How the count of the selected link or record type is reflected in the overall link count for the entity.

Procedure

  1. To locate items on the chart, you can select items in the list. To select items in the list and on the chart surface:
    • Label - Selects the entity.
    • Count or Distribution - Selects the links that are included in the current count (for record counts, this action selects links that contain those records).
    • Both - Selects both the entity and links.
    Tip: You can select multiple items by holding either Shift or Ctrl while making your selection.
  2. To highlight items of interest, click the highlighting status indicator found to the left of the item's icon.
    Tip: You can use the Highlight Top 10 option to highlight the top ten connections in the list.
  3. Optional: To change the color scheme that is used to highlight items, select Highlight Colors .
    You can choose between 4 standard color schemes that allow you to specify up to 10 highlight colors. You can also edit these color schemes to match your color scheme. When you highlight more than 10 items, the color scheme entries are repeated.
  4. Optional: To further accentuate links that have been highlighted, you can use the Set Line Width to increase the line width of highlighted links.
  5. Optional: To remove all highlighting, select Undo Highlighting.