Ghost Nodes

You may want to show all or a large part of a Performance Map or Visual View in a newly created view. Rather than dragging the nodes on from the Node buckets, you can simply import sections of the map or multiple nodes into your view.

 To do this, go into your view and right click on the canvas. You will see in the right click menu an option to ‘Show Nodes From’ – select whether you wish to view the nodes from your Performance Map or visual view. You will see that these appear on the canvas as ghost nodes. 

To import nodes into the view, you can select which nodes you wish to have imported (or use the Select All Ghost Objects option on right click), right click and select ‘Import Selected Ghost Objects’. This will import them into the map, showing them as nodes rather than ghost objects.

If, for example, you want to import a large map but with just a couple of nodes not shown, you can select the nodes that you do not wish to have in the view, right click on and chose ‘Invert Selected Ghost Objects’. This will invert the selection and from here, you can right click and ‘Import Selected Ghost Objects’.

 

‘Clear Ghost Objects’ will remove any ghost nodes that have not been imported onto the canvas. 

If you wish to know which nodes have been imported into a view, you can right click on the canvas and click ‘Select Imported Objects’. All nodes that have been imported will be selected on the canvas.

For a short video on importing ghost nodes into visual views, please click here.