Introduction
The Investigate panel is a slide in panel that provides navigation options for the current view. To toggle the panel, use the
icon in the top left corner. This option opens or closes the slide in panel:The position of the Investigate panel is stored in memory and persists between logins. Note that the panel can be manually resized by dragging the divider and will lock to a "minimized" display:
Perimeter options
The Perimeter options determine what is displayed in the view:
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Scope | Enables you to switch between the various available scopes. For example:
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: |
Perspective options
The Perspective options largely govern how the selected Scope is displayed:
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Aggregated by | Enables you to choose how to group the objects in the Application, for example:
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Levels | 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:
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Drill down / Communities mode options
These options are only available when drilling down beyond Level 5:
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Determines the type of "expand" action that is performed when drilling down beyond Level 5:
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: Click to enlarge | |
Only visible when a drill down option that includes Communities is chosen.
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Layout options
Icon/Option | Action | Description |
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Graph layout feature | 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)
Force (available in ≥ 2.11)
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Add a document view | See User Guide - Using the Document-It feature for more information. | |
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:
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Hide isolated nodes | This option hides any nodes that entirely isolated, i.e. do not have any links to other nodes: | |
Full Call Graph | Only available when:
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:
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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: Click to enlarge Disabling the option will return to the main layout. | |
Main objects only | Only available:
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 | Exports the current view to a number of different output formats. See Export views. | |
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 | Only available:
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