Managing Publication Links in Impact Graph

You can hide publication links in an Impact Graph.

In some cases, the Impact Graph may contain a large number of publication links and make it difficult for you to read it. By hiding publication links you can reduce the graph size by hiding the nodes related to publications.

  1. Select Me > Preferences from the menu. The Options dialog box appears.
  2. Select PLM Access then Impact Analysis to access the Impact Graph Properties.
  3. Select Hide Publication links option under Graph display and click OK.

    Every Impact Graph window opened after the enabling or disabling of the publication link option using the global settings will display graph according to settings.

    The following examples show the result of applying/enabling the Hide Publication links option to the impact graph.

    ExamplesImpact Graph before selecting the Hide Publication Links option.Impact Graph after selecting the Hide Publication Links option.
    Example 1





    Example 2

    When only a single publication link is present, the link is hidden after the Hide Publication links option is selected.





    Example 3

    When there is more than one link pointing to the same object as the publication-merged link, a composite link is created.