Scope

Enables you to switch between the various available scopes. For example:

• Application scope
• Module scope
• Transaction mode
• Data Call Graph scope
• Architecture layer scope
• Service scope
• Custom scope

For all Scopes (except Application), a sub scope selector is available, for example for Data Call Graph mode - this allows you to select specific items within that scope:

Enables you to choose how to group the objects in the Application, for example:

Use this option to further refine the aggregation using the levels mechanism. The levels available differ according to the scope/aggregation mode you are working in:

Level	Contains	Aggregation mode
		CAST Taxonomy	Modules	Architecture Model
Level 1	Highest level, objects grouped into nodes such as: Data Services Services System Interaction User Interaction
Level 2	Communication Services Database Services Logic Services Monitoring Services Output Services Screen Interaction Web Interaction
Level 3	Business Logic Business Logic Coordination Data Access Services Exposed API Logger RDBMS Services Reporting Services Rich Client Presentation Web Coordination Web Presentation
Level 4	Specific object groupings such as: Hibernate Data Access HTML Presentation Jackson Jasper Reports Java Business Logic Java Core
Level 5	More detailed object groupings such as:  HTML Pages J2EE Scoped Bean Java Class Java Class DAO
Objects	Individual object display in vignette mode: Click to enlarge

Determines the type of "expand" action that is performed when drilling down beyond Level 5:

• Children + caller/callee, group by communities
• Children only, group by communities
• Children + external objects, group by communities

These options are available for parent nodes that group together package based objects, for example Java Classes, some database objects etc. On selecting any of the options, all child or caller/callee objects of the objects in the selected node will be displayed in a new view together with external objects (depending on the option selected). The objects are grouped in the new view based on their packages:

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• Keep Immediate (default option) > Here all the other groups related to the selected group remain in the view and objects belonging to the selected group will be added to the view as square nodes and all other groups which are not related to the selected group are regrouped into a single parent node.

• Group Others > Here objects belonging to the selected group are added to the view as square nodes and all other groups are regrouped into a single parent node.

• Keep All > Here all the other groups remain the same where as objects belonging to the selected group are added to graph as square nodes.

Use these options to choose an auto-layout for the nodes. For specific scopes, a specific layout maybe predefined, for example, Hierarchical is always used for Data Call Graph mode. You can also define a default layout at global level via the display preferences - see Preferred Graph Layout in Configuring display preferences. In Hierarchical, Sequential and Force layouts, additional options are available:

Hierarchical and Sequential (available in ≥ 2.11)

• Node Distance (Horizontally): change the distance (in pixels) between nodes, horizontally
• Node Distance (Vetically): change the distance (in pixels) between nodes, vertically
• "TB"|"BT"|"LR"|"RL" - top-bottom/bottom-top, left-right/right-left: change the ranking direction

Force (available in ≥ 2.11)

• Elasticity: Node collision elasticity. Smaller values may result in incomplete node overlap removal.
• Gravity: Force that attracts nodes to the center of the graph.
• Align Siblings : Align nodes that are linked to the same two nodes only (enabled by default).

Add a document view

Hide external libraries

Allows you to filter on the type of objects that are displayed in the view. Toggling the options will remove and re-display corresponding objects from the view:

• External > External objects are those originating in third-party libraries or system assemblies.
• Isolated Nodes > Nodes that are not linked to any other node.

Hide isolated nodes

This option hides any nodes that entirely isolated, i.e. do not have any links to other nodes:

 Full Call Graph

This option (when clicked) will update the view to display the selected Transaction's call graph in full mode. By default a simplified transaction call graph (reduced call graph) is always displayed so that view loading time is kept as short as possible (particularly useful when the standard call graph is very large): specific nodes and links that are less important are automatically hidden from the view. The nodes/links that are displayed when in simplified/reduced mode are determined automatically during the Application export process.

Before using the option (default simplified/reduced mode):

After switching to full call graph mode:

Shortest path

This displays the critical (i.e. shortest) path between two objects (source and target). The view will show the critical (i.e. shortest) path between the input node (i.e. the selected transaction/node) and a "dummy" output node (any nodes/objects not involved will be temporarily hidden). For example, a JSP transaction is selected in the Investigation panel and the critical path is highlighted on drill down beyond Level 5:

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Disabling the option will return to the main layout.

 Main objects only

Toggles the view to show main objects and sub-objects (default when not enabled) and main objects only (when enabled):

Before using the option - note the nodes highlighted in red - these are the nodes that are displayed after enabling the option:

After:

Note that some right click options on nodes are disabled when Main objects only is enabled:

Export all objects and links

Save a view / Updated saved view

To save the current view with a view name (available in all view types across all levels in ≥ 1.10.0). To view the saved view, see Saved views.

When you are viewing an existing saved view, this option will re-save the view.

Removed saved view