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🖥️ Adjust View

The Adjust View menu is the cockpit for the visual representation of your knowledge network. Since the InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder can effortlessly manage millions of items, you determine in this menu how much data is loaded on the screen at the same time, from which perspective (2D/3D) you view it, and according to which layout algorithm the map automatically arranges itself.

💾 Saved Views (Bookmarks)

If you work in large networks, you will want to quickly find specific views again. Here you can save your current state as a bookmark.

  • Save View: Saves all current settings of this menu (zoom, layout, filters) as a new view.
    • Pro Tip: Make sure to check the "Save root item" box in the save dialog! When you open the view later, the program immediately centers the diagram exactly on this origin node. Check the box for "Set as initial view" so that this view is automatically loaded every time the app starts.
  • Saved Views (Drop-down): Select a previously saved view (e.g., "Initial View") here to load it at lightning speed.
  • Update View: Overwrites the selected view with your current settings.
  • Delete View: Removes the view from your list.

🔎 Camera & 3D Control

With these seamless sliders, you control the virtual camera in 3D space:

  • Zoom: Increases or decreases the size of the diagram.
    • 🔥 Ultimate Pro Tip for Exporting: If you export your diagram as an image via the Knowledge Base menu and the result looks blurry, increase this Zoom slider to 150% or 200% before exporting! The image will then be rendered in a massively higher resolution and will remain razor-sharp when printed.
  • Distance: Regulates the distance or the length of the connection lines between the individual nodes. Drag the slider to the right to "loosen up" densely packed maps.
  • Rotation & Rotation Speed: Controls the automatic rotation of the entire diagram (especially impressive in 3D mode or for video recordings).
  • Perspective: Changes the 3D depth effect. At 0%, the diagram looks completely flat (2D orthogonal); the higher the value, the stronger the spatial 3D effect.

🔀 Diagram (Layout Algorithm)

The system takes care of manual sorting for you. In this section, you define the basic structuring logic.

  • Layout (Drop-down): Choose from a variety of professional arrangements. The most important ones include:
    • Mind Map (straight lines / curved lines / trajectory): The classic tree structure.
    • Mind Map radial: The child items arrange themselves in a circle around the center.
    • Hierarchical / Grouped: Ideal for organizational charts.
    • Flowchart (top -> bottom / left -> right): Forces the diagram into a strictly linear process direction.
    • 1-Column Grouped / 2-Columns Grouped: Pro Tip: The "1-Column Grouped" layout is excellent for displaying chronological sequences (timelines).
  • Decrease Child Items: Determines how the size of sub-items behaves (Same height, Child count wise, Level wise).

Display switches:

  • Expand Items (Checkbox): Very powerful! If this is activated, the detailed description text is not just shown as a tooltip when clicking, but is written directly in full length into the node boxes in the diagram.
  • Mark Root Item: Visually highlights the central starting node of the current section.
  • Show Cross Connections: Shows or hides lines that run across between the hierarchy branches.
  • Collapse duplicate Relations: Combines multiple lines that run between exactly the same two nodes into a single line to create clarity.
  • Edit Mode: Toggles the display of UI control elements for editing on or off.
  • Animate Transitions: Activates smooth camera flights when clicking on new nodes. Pro Tip: Turn this off on very weak devices or extremely large maps to increase performance.

🏷️ Labels (Labeling Indicators)

Items often have small symbols or counters on their corners. Here you control which additional information the diagram displays:

  • Show all Labels: A global switch for all text and symbol badges.
  • Show Category Labels / Show Note Labels / Show Description Labels: Displays the icons that indicate that an item belongs to a category, possesses an HTML note, or has a description text (question mark icon).
  • Show More Item Count (+3): Activates the small orange boxes. These indicate how many direct sub-items (child items) still exist that are currently hidden due to space constraints.
  • Show Hidden Item Count (+5): Activates the gray boxes. These indicate how many cross connections are currently not displayed on the screen.
  • Show Item Shift: Shows whether you have manually moved an item (in the table view) from its automatic layout position.

👁️ Visible Diagram Section (Performance Control)

This is the most important area for the speed of the app. For performance reasons, the system never loads millions of nodes at the same time.

  • Max. Number of visible Items (Default: 100): Limits the maximum number of nodes on the screen. If you have a powerful PC, you can increase the value. Attention: If the app becomes slow, reduce this value! The program cleverly re-centers maps anyway when you click on nodes at the edge.
  • Max. Number of visible Levels: Limits how deep the branches are drawn into the sub-levels (Level 1, Level 2, etc.).
  • Max. Child Items in Level 1 to 4: Here you can granularly specify from how many branches per level the system should pack the rest into the orange "(+X)" box.

🔽 Filters & User Interface

  • Item Category Filter / Relation Category Filter: Allows you to completely hide certain categories from the current diagram (e.g., to only show the "important" nodes for a presentation, while "drafts" remain invisible).
  • User Interface: Here you can customize the color theme of the entire app interface (e.g., to the classic "Dark Mode" or "Blue").