Settings

Permission: Settings management

Users with the Settings management permission can configure and customize the Graphlytic solution. There are 2 types of settings: full-text index settings and application settings (data schema, data types, search mode, search tabs, ...).

How to customize Graphlytic

Graphlytic works without any settings, the only thing you have to set is the fulltext index (if you want to able to use the search functionality). It's just a few clicks. More information and steps on how to set up the fulltext index can be found in the Administration manual here: Node fulltext index .

Visualization global settings

Some of the global settings can be used to set the default configuration of every newly-created visualization:

  • DATA_SCHEMA - use Data Schema for the formatting of property values (decimal places, currency symbols or date formats), creating global virtual properties or defining input restrictions for graph editing use cases.

  • VISUALIZATION - default settings for any newly-created visualization. Default style mappers, titles, tooltips, all sorts of thresholds, and much more can be changed in this setting.

  • Optional but highly recommended is to define STYLE_MAPPERS. Style Mappers objects are used to define rules on how to visually map the data in the graph to style properties like icons, colors, sizes, etc. Created style mapper objects are listed in the "Style" tab in visualization where you can apply them to style the visualization.

The VISUALIZATION and STYLE_MAPPERS settings can be set with one click from any Visualization - the "Save as default" button is located at the bottom of the Settings tab. First style the visualization as you like and then save the settings with the button. After that, any newly-created visualization will use the exact same configuration as a default config on initialization.

Global Query Repository

SEARCH_TABS - when you are using the same Cypher queries or filtering criteria over and over it's a good idea to add them to the Search Tabs repository. All users of the system are then able to easily add these queries from the Repository into their Search & Manage Data page

Import and Export of the global settings

On the Settings page: use the "Export settings" button to export all settings packed in one Zip file. You can use this file to backup your global settings or transfer global settings between Graphlytic instances.

You can upload settings back into Graphlytic by just dropping the file in the drag&drop area on the Settings page.

Import one setting

It's possible to upload one setting file at a time.

  • The name of the setting file has to be the same as the name of the setting (for example DATA_TYPES.json or VISUALIZATION.json).

  • Encoding of the file has to be "UTF-8".

Import more than one setting with zip files

It's possible to import a zip file with more setting files.

  • The name of the zip file is arbitrary.

  • Names of the setting files in the zip file have to be the same as the name of the settings (for example DATA_TYPES.json or VISUALIZATION.json).

  • Encoding of the setting files has to be "UTF-8".

  • All setting files from the zip file are loaded.