Visualization of relations between nodes

This tutorial shows how to create a graphical visualization of relations between nodes.

Required modules

• Views
• Relation
• graphapi
• Any of the Graph API supporting modules like Graph Phyz, d3js, The JIT

It is assumed that your site already has existing relations between nodes.

Steps

1. Create a node view with graph rendering format
2. Create a view relationship Relation node<->node (here it is named relation n-n)
3. Create the following view fields:
   • Content: Title
   • Content: Nid
   • (relation n-n) Content: Title (Title)
   • (relation n-n) Content: Nid (Nid)
4. Edit the format settings:
   • from settings:
     • unique ID: Content: Nid
     • Label to display: Content: Title
   • to settings:
     • unique ID: (relation n-n) Nid
     • Label to display: (relation n-n) Title
5. Check out which render type works best for your content