Filtering Entities and Relationships on the Canvas

Use the Filters tool to filter entities and relationships visible on the Canvas. You can filter by entity type, by relationship label, and both entities and relationships by their property values.

As you configure entity and relationship filters with the Filters tool, the entities and relationships displayed on the canvas are hidden or displayed. As you make changes to the Filters options, an infobox pops up to indicate how many entities and relationships are hidden or displayed by each change.

  1. On the Canvas toolbar, click the Filters button to open the Filters tool.
  2. Configure Entity Filters:
    1. Optional: To hide entities orphaned by filter options, check the Hide orphaned entities check box.
      Tip: Orphaned entities lack relationships to other entities.
    2. In the entity types list, check the check boxes for entity types that you want to display or uncheck check boxes to hide entities. You can check or uncheck Show to check or uncheck all entity types in the list.
    3. To filter entities by a property value, first select a property in the entity property list, then configure the options that appear to define allowed values for the entity property.
      Entity property options depend on the property type (Boolean, string, numeric, or temporal). For more information, see Property operators.
      Leave the entity property set to --All-- if you do not want to filter entities by property values.
    4. Optional: You can choose to hide entities that have an undefined property value (property not used, null or empty) by checking the Hide entities with undefined values check box.
  3. Configure Relationship Filters.
    1. In the relationship labels list, check the check boxes for relationship labels that you want to display or uncheck check boxes to hide relationships. You can check or uncheck Show to check or uncheck all relationship labels in the list.
      Note: Only relationships labels between entities currently visible on the Canvas appear in this list. These are entities corresponding to the types that you checked in the entities list in step 2.b.
    2. To filter relationships by a property value, first select a property in the relationship property list, then configure options that appear to define allowed values for the relationship property.
      Relationship property options depend on the property type (Boolean, string, numeric, or temporal). For more information, see Property operators.
      Leave the relationship property set to --All-- if you do not want to filter relationships by property values.
    3. Optional: You can choose to hide relationships with an undefined property value (property not used, null or empty) by checking the Hide relationships with undefined values check box.
  4. To close the Filters options, click the Filters button on the toolbar.
    The Clear Filters button appears next to the Filters button whenever filters are applied to entities or relationships on the canvas.
  5. To clear filters and display all of the entities and relationships on the canvas, click the Clear Filters button .
Filters persist between sessions after you sign out. You can repeat this procedure at any time in a session to change or clear the filters.