7.3.4 Using Live Search

Live Search lets you to search the displayed graph and add live fuzzy search score to each item, so you can create a Highlight which visually shows the results of the search in the graph immediately.

If you run a query, and a graph is displayed, you can add the live search, which is on the settings dialog. On the bottom of the General tab, you will see these options.

• Enable Live Search: Enables the Live Search feature, adds the search input to the visualization, and lets you further customize the search.
• Enable Search In: You can select whether you want to search the properties of Vertices, Edges, or both.
• Properties To Search: Based on what you selected for Enable Search In, you can set one or more properties to search in. For example, if you disable the search for edges but you had a property from edges selected, it will be stored and added back when you enable search for the edges again. (This also works for vertices.)
• Advanced Settings: You can fine-tune the search even more. Each of the advanced options is documented with context help, visible upon enabling.
  • Location: Determines approximately where in the text the pattern is expected to be found.
  • Distance: Determines how close the match must be to the fuzzy location (specified by location). An exact letter match which is distance characters away from the fuzzy location would score as a complete mismatch. A distance of 0 requires the match be at the exact location specified, a distance of 1000 would require a perfect match to be within 800 characters of the location to be found using a threshold of 0.8.
  • Maximum Pattern Length: The maximum length of the pattern. The longer the pattern (that is, the search query), the more intensive the search operation will be. Whenever the pattern exceeds this value, an error will be thrown.
  • Min Char Match: The minimum length of the pattern. Whenever the pattern length is below this value, an error will be thrown.

When the search is enabled, the input will be displayed in the top left part of the Graph Visualization component. If you start typing, the search will add a score to every vertex or edge, based on the settings and the search match.

To be able to see the results visually, you have to add a Highlight with interpolation set to a Live Search score and other settings based on the desired visual change.