Once you create a Network visualization, you can select options to customize the display of the visualization, such as the size of the font used to show labels for nodes in the visualization, whether to display an animation when switching between node layout styles, and so on.
From the drop-down list at the top of the panel, determine what part of the visualization to format. See the appropriate section below for formatting options:
The following general formatting options are available to format node labels, node edges, the display theme for the visualization, and so on:
Show Node Label: Show descriptive labels for nodes in the visualization.
Show Edge Direction: Display edges in the visualization as arrows to show the node at which each edge starts and ends.
Show Animation Transition: Show an animation when a user changes the layout style used to display nodes in the visualization. To improve dashboard performance, the animation is not displayed on mobile devices if the number of edges in the visualization exceeds 300.
Node Size Aggregation: Select the function you want to use to aggregate the metric values used to determine node size in the visualization.
Theme: Determine whether to display the visualization using a Dark or Light (default) display theme.
Item Fill: Use the following options to format the color of the nodes in the visualization:
From the drop-down list, select the opacity with which to display each node, with higher percentage values being more opaque.
From the color palette, select the color to use to display each node.
Item Border: Use the following options to format the border of each node in the visualization:
From the first drop-down list, select the thickness, in pixels, of the node borders.
From the color palette, select the color to use to display the node borders.
From the second drop-down list, select the line style to use to display the node borders. The default is Thin.
Background: Use the following options to format the visualization's background:
From the drop-down list, select the opacity with which to display the background of the visualization, with higher percentage values being more opaque.
From the color palette, select the background color for the visualization.
You can define additional formatting options, such as how to display the attribute form names and how null and zero metric values are hidden. To access these options, click More Options. For detailed descriptions of these options, see More Options dialog box.
The following options are available to format the title and background in a Network visualization.
Title: Use the following options to display and format the visualization’s title:
Show Titlebar: Select to display the visualization’s title.
Select the font type from the Font drop-down list.
Determine whether to apply Bold, Italic, Underline, or Strikethrough formatting to the text, by clicking the appropriate icon.
Select the font size from the drop-down list.
Select the font color from the color palette.
Select the background color of the title from the Fill Color color palette.
Fill: Use the following options to format the visualization’s background:
From the color palette, select the color to use to display the background.
Type the opacity of the background color as a percentage in the field. Higher percentage values are displayed as more opaque than lower percentage values. Press ENTER to apply your changes.
The following options are available to format the legend of a Network visualization:
Show Legend: Select this option to show the graph legend.
Hide Legend: Select this option to hide the graph legend.
Text: Use the following options to format the legend text:
From the first drop-down list, select the font type.
Apply Bold, Italic, Underline, or Strikethrough formatting to the text, by clicking the appropriate icon.
From the second drop-down list, select the font size.
From the color palette, select the font color.
Border: Use the following options to format the legend's border:
Determine whether to Show or Hide the legend's border.
From the color palette, select the color of the legend's border.
From the first drop-down list, select the thickness of the legend's border, in pixels.
From the second drop-down list, select the line style to use to display the legend's border. The default is Thin.
Background: Use the following options to format the legend's background:
From the color palette, select the color to use to display the legend's background.
Type the opacity of the background color as a percentage in the field. Higher percentage values are displayed as more opaque than lower percentage values. Press ENTER to apply your changes.
You must have the Web Edit Dashboard and Web Run Dashboard privileges.
You have created a Network visualization. For steps, see Creating a Network visualization.
To format a Network visualization:
Click the name of a dashboard to run it. Click the visualization to format.
From the visualization's Properties panel, select the appropriate options to format the visualization, as described above.
If the Properties panel is not displayed, from the View menu, select Properties Panel. If the Properties panel is hidden behind another panel, click the Properties icon to display the Properties panel.
Creating a Network visualization
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