Changing the Appearance of Selected Relationships

The Selected Relationship Settings ribbon in the Styling tab allows you to determine the appearance of relationships. This gives you further control over your data by allowing you to manually make certain relationships stand out by using color, line type, arrow type, and so on. You can also turn labels off and on and determine how far from the entity the label should be. For instance, if you are looking at data involving the insurance claims, you could use the Selection Tool to identify and select relationships with a label of "Claimant." Then, you could change those relationships to be a different type and color than the relationships with different labels. You could also change the font and size of the selected relationships' labels.

Settings made here will apply only to selected relationships, whereas settings made in the Gradient section will apply to all relationships.

With one or more relationships selected, change any of the following settings.

Lines

Sets the appearance of selected relationships.

Source

Sets the appearance of the starting point (source) of selected relationships.

Target

Sets the appearance of the ending point (target) of selected relationships.

Property

Allows you to change the selected relationship's current label to a different property.

Toggle label

Activates and deactivates labels for selected relationships.

Line color

Sets the color of selected relationships.

Edge Settings

Access the settings below by clicking the arrow in the bottom-right corner of the Edge Settings area of the ribbon. Allows you to use line and label settings to alter the appearance of relationships.

Line Settings

• Line color—Sets the color of the relationships.
• Line type—Sets the appearance of the relationships.
• Thickness—Sets the width of the relationships.
• Source arrow—Sets the appearance of the starting point (source) of selected relationships.
• Scale—Sets the size of the source arrow.
• Target arrow—Sets the appearance of the ending point (target) of selected relationships.
• Scale—Sets the size of the target arrow.

Label Settings

• Show labels check box—Activates relationship labels on the model.
  Note: Large models will load and change layouts more quickly if labels are turned off for both entities and relationships.
• Color drop-down box—Sets the color of the relationship labels.
• Font—Sets the font for the relationship labels.
• Font size—Sets the size of the relationship label.
• Distance from relationship—Sets how close to or far from the labels are to the relationships.
• Wrap label—Forces labels exceeding maximum width to break onto multiple lines.
• Trim label—Trims labels exceeding maximum width.
• Maximum width—Sets the maximum width allowable for labels.

Click Apply to make line and label settings changes to your model.