Canvas overview¶
You can visually explore data on a canvas. This topic introduces the composition of a canvas and its related functions.
Canvas overview diagram:
Tabs on the Top¶
Click the plus sign 
to add a new canvas. You can have operations on multiple canvases simultaneously.
- Canvas data on different canvases can come from the same graph space or from different graph spaces.
- You can customize the name of a canvas except for the canvas in the left-most tab.
Visualization modes¶
Graph data can be visually explored in 2D mode and 3D mode. For more information, Visualization modes.
Data storage¶
Graph data on the current canvas can be stored by creating snapshots or exporting canvas data as images or CSV files.
At the top right of the page, you can:
- Click
to create a snapshot. For more information, see Canvas snapshots. - Click
to store canvas data as images. - Click
to store canvas data as CSV files.
Search box¶
In the search box at the top left of the page, enter a VID or the property values of tags to locate target vertices.
Layouts¶
Explorer provides 6 layouts to show the relationship between the data on a canvas.
| Force | Dagre | Circular | Grid | Neural Network | Radial |
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Minimap¶
You can display the vertices on a canvas on full screen. You can also collapse the minimap, zoom in or zoom out the canvass, etc. The percentage of a canvas graph to the total is displayed in the lower-left corner of the minimap.
Data overview¶
On the right side of the page, click 
to expand the data overview panel.
On the data overview panel, you are enabled to:
- See the number of tags and edge types, and the number of the corresponding vertices and edges on a canvas.
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Click the tag color icon to customize the color, size, and icon of the vertices with the same tag.
Note
Vertices with the same tag have the same color. Right-click on a single vertex on a canvas to manually modify the style of the vertex.