Using more Designer features

Presents and gives examples of more advanced features of the JViews Diagrammer Designer (those features not presented in Getting started).

In this section

Changing Layout Parameters
- Explains how to use the Styling Customizer for graph layout.
Using the Graph Layout Wizard
- Explains how to select a graph layout in the wizard.
Loading a different style sheet
- Explains how to change the style sheet associated with the diagram.
Resetting a default value after a state change
- Explains how to handle values set by default that change because of a temporary state.
Importing data from a flat file
- Explains how to import data from a text file and map it.
Inserting an icon
- Explains how to load an image file and insert it into a node.
Creating a user-defined data model
- Explains how to create a simple network model based on the in-memory data in the New Diagram Wizard.
Adding decorations for alarm severities
- Explains how to configure nodes so that they dynamically reflect any change in their status.
Adding a node to a diagram
- Explains how to insert a node on an existing link and then lay out the nodes again.
Using subgraphs
- Explains how to create a group, which is a node that contains a subgraph of other nodes.
Displaying different levels of detail
- Shows how to define three different levels of detail for displaying the nodes.
Using background maps
- Describes how to load a background map into a diagram.
Importing data from a database
- Explains how to load data from a database and map it.
Using data model expressions
- Explains an advanced feature for inserting references to the data model or expressions in certain property values.
Importing data from a JViews TGO data file
- Explains how to load data from a JViews TGO data file.
Setting base text direction
- Describes how to set base text direction in a diagram.

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