In dashboard view mode, you can use the Function Flow diagram interactively.
In view mode, you can
select individual functions and connections, for example, for filtering other widgets.
Selected elements are highlighted. To select a connection, you can click it or its
value. Unlike the functions, the special start and end nodes and the corresponding
connections are not selectable. Functions and connections are only selectable if you
have selected the Change selection interaction mode in the Settings menu. To deselect a function or a connection, select the function or connection
again or select another one.
select multiple functions in the diagram if multiple selection mode is enabled. The
option is enabled by default. You can select one function after the other in the diagram,
and the corresponding filters are added and applied to the widgets. When multiple
selection is enabled, the filtering of connections is disabled. Edges in the Function Flow diagram cannot be selected, and no edge filters can be set from outside the Function Flow widget. To disable your selection, click the Settings icon > Clear Selection, or click the
Menu icon > Clear Selection, if enabled. The menu is disabled by default for the Function Flow widget.
display connection values. If connection values are displayed, hovering over connections
shows a tooltip which contains the column name of the shown connection value together
with the corresponding value for this connection. Click the Settings icon and select a measure from the Values shown at connections drop-down menu. The drop-down menu is provided if you have set at least one additional
connection value in the Assign data (2/2) dialog. See Assign data sources.
display function labels and function measures. Function name and measure value are displayed within the function. Move the mouse pointer over the function to display a tooltip containing the function name and value. If function measures are defined but there are no values available for a specific function, no value is shown.
select the function measure whose values are to be displayed in the function. Click
the Settings icon and select a measure from the Values shown at functions drop-down menu. If only one measure is specified in the data assignment, no selection box is available, and the corresponding values are displayed automatically.
If thresholds are configured, the function symbols are marked with colors that represent the state in which the corresponding measure value is currently located.
move the entire diagram or the individual function using drag and drop. To move the
complete diagram, click on an empty space within the widget and hold down the mouse
button. Now the graph can be moved until you release the mouse button. The functions
can be moved by dragging them to a new location. If a function has been moved, the
alignment of the connection and the position of the label on the connection are automatically
adjusted. The lines are drawn straight instead of the previous curved lines. If you want to move individual functions, you must select the Adjust layout interaction mode in the Settings menu.
resize the diagram using the mouse wheel. The diagram can be zoomed in or out related to the mouse pointer position.
enable the magnifier. Click the Settings icon and select Enable magnifier. The magnifier is enabled by default. The magnifier enlarges the diagram elements
on mouse over.
display the relevance slider. Click the Settings icon and select Show slider. The relevance slider is enabled by default. If you deactivate the Show slider option, the slider is hidden and only the plus and minus buttons are displayed. The
slider is also hidden if there is not enough space in the widget. The relevance slider
is disabled in a Function flow diagram that contains only a single function.
The relevance slider filters the connections in the graph based on the relevance value assigned to the connections. See Assign data sources. The top and the bottom values are based on the configured sorting of the relevance column. The top value is set to 100% and the bottom value only shows the connections with the smallest value, depending on the sorting.
Move the mouse pointer over the plus and minus button or over the slider to display a tooltip with information about the filtered connection values.
The relevance slider is not supported if the widget is used as global, that is, used on more than one tab.
If selected objects disappear when you use the slider, the selection is retained, and an info icon is displayed indicating that selected objects are hidden. This does not apply to single functions in the diagram. Single functions are always displayed.
reset the layout. Click the Settings icon and select Reset layout. A layout reset does not affect the selection of objects (single or multi selection),
independent of whether they are visible or hidden.
reset the zoom factor. Click the Settings icon and select Reset zoom.
select the type of interaction of the function symbols when they are selected. Click the Settings icon and select the interaction type in the Node interaction drop-down menu. The default is Change selection.
Note that the diagram layout has changed with version 10.4. If a widget from an older version is opened, the layout is retained if possible. A new layout is generated if new nodes are added to the data, or if you reset the layout manually.
By default, the diagram layout is recreated when new nodes or connections are added to the data (for example, by changing filters), or when the layout is reset manually. If no nodes are moved in Edit mode, the layout is always reset when the dashboard is opened. After that, the nodes remain in place as long as the dashboard is open. If nodes were moved in Edit mode, the diagram layout is saved, and the changed layout is restored, if possible, when the dashboard is opened again.