Configure a Project User Interface

You can configure user interface (UI) elements displayed in a GraphXR project, to either limit or expand the tools and functionality available in a project with the default GraphXR UI.

The UI Config button in the Project > Settings subpanel opens a UI configuration dialog where you can enable or disable presentation of UI panels, extensions, and right-click menu and toolbar options.

With UI configuration, a project can be granted additional GraphXR functionality that may not be present in your default configuration.

For example, a GraphXR Explorer project presents a streamlined UI designed primarily for graph database query and visual exploration. Additional UI features a user may want to add include:

  • Layout, for the panel to sort nodes in geometric layouts by property value, which is not available in the toolbar’s Quick Layout menu.

  • Map, for the panel to drop nodes with lat-long property values on a world map.

  • Property graph modeling features:

    • The Transform panel and its Formula, Extract, Link, Aggregate, Merge, and Shortcut subpanels).

    • The Graph Composer extension to model collections of relational tables or CSVs as a property graph.

    • The Grove extension, for building and sharing Observable-based notebooks.

To configure a project’s User Interface elements:

  1. In the Project > Settings subpanel, click UI Config.

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    The project _UI Configuration _ dialog displays all the UI elements you can enable globally, enable on the project, or disable. The icon next to each element indicates its current status.

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  2. Click the checkbox or icon next to an element to enable (or disable) it in the project.

  3. Scroll to the top of the dialog and click Save to apply the changes and exit to the project canvas.

    The UI is updated. For example, the example project menu below now includes icons for previously hidden GraphXR panels and extensions.

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