Graph view: toggle button to display only references from properties

[alex0]

Many users are confused by the graph view because they expect to be more in control of edges between each node.

The current graph view makes sense if you have a large amount of pages, this way you could see clusters that makes sense. That’s all.

With a toggle button in graph view that disable all the edges except the ones made from page properties, the user could feel much more in control of this graph structure.

Only references like this, in page properties, would result in an edge in the graph:

The Picture of Dorian Gray
author:: [[Oscar Wilde]]

The Picture of Dorian Gray
         	 |
         	 |
         	 |
        Oscar Wilde

Maybe this way it would make sense to display property keys as labels too:

The Picture of Dorian Gray
         	 |
         	 | Author
         	 |
        Oscar Wilde

[naught101]

Related/alternative solution that might be more flexible (but probably also much more difficult to implement):

Attributes/properties for links/relationships

It would be cool to be able to have attributes on links between pages, in a way that could later be used for mapping the data in the graph (e.g. via export into Gephi, or perhaps via improvements to the graph view page) Links could have two basic attribute types: A “type” that defines the type of relationship the link represents Arbitrary key=value pairs that define relationship attributes Using some special character to delimit the sections, perhaps something like: [[Target|Relationship-ty…

Separately: I disagree that the current all-in-one graph view is useful for seeing clusters in a large graph, unless you happen to have a graph that has clusters that are very weakly connected, which is probably unusual unless you are using the graph for two very separate purposes that don’t intersect much. In which case the clusters are already obvious in the data, and the graph view doesn’t add much. I’ve been thinking a bit about writing up a “how to make a graph view useful” type post, might have a go soon…