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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/Table) you view it, and according to which layout algorithm the map automatically arranges itself.

🪟 The Three View Modes (2D Diagram, 3D Diagram, Table View)

In the toolbar at the top right, you can switch between three completely distinct display modes at any time:

  • 2D Diagram: The classic, flat mind map and flowchart view. It provides 19 layout algorithms and high-speed rendering for daily editing.
  • 3D Diagram: The spatial three-dimensional view. You can freely orbit the camera with the mouse or finger, zoom seamlessly, and let the diagram rotate automatically.
  • Table View (Tabular Representation):
    • Click the Table button in the top-right toolbar to display the current diagram structured as a hierarchical table.
    • Best suited for: Rapidly reviewing, scanning, and scrolling through extensive datasets, lists of attributes, and large collections of items.
    • Manual reordering: To change the display order of items manually, tap/click on an item for more than 2 seconds and drag-and-drop it to the desired new position in the table.
    • Return to the visual diagram at any time by clicking the Diagram (2D) or 3D button in the top-right toolbar.

Hierarchical table view of the solar system in KnowledgeBase Builder

💾 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.
    • 💡 Professional 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 significantly higher resolution to ensure a clear print.
  • 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 (useful for 3D views or 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.
  • Text Orientation (Dropdown, 3D view only): Determines how the labels are placed in space. The setting only appears once you have switched to the spatial view with the 3D button.
    • To viewer: Every label turns with the camera and therefore always stays readable head-on. The best choice when you rotate the diagram or record a video.
    • Static: The labels are anchored in space and turn with the diagram. Spatially consistent, but hard to read at some angles.
    • Radial: The labels align along the direction of their node. Emphasises the structure, but is the hardest to read.

🔀 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:
    • 2D Layouts (19 variants):
      • Mind Map (straight lines / curved lines / trajectory): Classic branching tree structures.
      • Mind Map radial (straight / curved / trajectory): Child items arrange themselves circularly around the center.
      • Concept-Map (radial / hierarchical): Structured associative network.
      • Hierarchical & Hierarchical Grouped (combined lines): Ideal for organizational charts and system architectures.
      • 1-Column Grouped / 2-Columns Grouped: Excellent for chronological sequences, timelines, and parallel streams.
      • Flowchart (top -> bottom / left -> right): Forces the diagram into a strictly linear process direction.
    • 3D Layouts (5 variants, active in 3D view):
      • MindMap radial (3D): Spherical radial distribution.
      • Tree (levelwise / levelwise both sides / relation direction): Spatial 3D tree hierarchies.
      • Spherical (Kugelförmig): Projects the network evenly onto a surrounding 3D sphere.
  • 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.
  • Show Table Relations: Determines whether relations that were set to As Table in the Edit Relation dialog are still drawn as lines in addition. Switch the option off and those relations only appear as table rows inside the two items involved – which tidies up diagrams with many attributes considerably. How to prepare a relation for this is described in Build a Knowledge Base.
  • 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). The category label switch also shows the tags of an item as additional coloured labels.
  • 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: Highlights whether an item has been manually moved (in the diagram or in the table view) away from its calculated 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). The entries also apply to tags of the same name.
  • Show Only Selected: Switches the filter mode. Switched off (default), an element disappears as soon as one of its labels is switched off. Switched on, an element stays visible as long as at least one of its labels is switched on — ideal for isolating a single tag.
  • User Interface: Here you can customize the color theme of the entire app interface (e.g., to the classic "Dark Mode" or "Blue").