Views & Dashboards
A view is a curated subset of your architecture graph, designed for a specific purpose. Views let you focus on what matters without losing the full context of the graph.
Creating a View
Click New View in the view selector at the top of the Explorer. Give it a title. Then add entities by selecting them in the entity browser or dragging them onto the canvas.
Static vs Dynamic Views
Manually curated. You choose exactly which entities appear. The view does not change unless you add or remove entities yourself. Best for stable, well-defined architecture diagrams.
Auto-expanding. Start with one or more seed entities, select which relationship types to follow, and set a hop depth (up to 3). The view automatically includes all entities reachable by those relationships. As your graph evolves, the view updates automatically.
Dashboard Mode
Open any view in Dashboard mode for a fullscreen, read-only presentation. Dashboard mode hides the editing UI and shows just the graph canvas with the view title. This is useful for:
- Presentations and screen-sharing with stakeholders
- Wall-mounted architecture dashboards
- Exporting clean screenshots
Access Dashboard mode via the view menu or navigate directly to /dashboard in your browser.
Scenario Layering in Views
Views can be configured to display specific alternative architecture scenarios. In the view config panel, enable scenarios and choose which scenarios are active for the view. This allows you to maintain side-by-side comparative views (e.g. “Current Production Baseline” alongside “Target Cloud Architecture - Option A”) within the same project workspace.
Per-View Display Options
Each view can have its own display settings independent of the project defaults:
- Layout Algorithm: Schematic — clean orthogonal corridors with zero overlaps.
- Manual Node Positions: Persisted x/y canvas coordinates saved specifically to this view.
- Grouping Strategy: Layer swimlanes, specialization groups, or flat layout.
- Visual Toggles: Icons, type labels, relationship names, tag lozenges, and overlap collision removal.
Next: Architecture Scenarios
Learn how to define alternative options and what-if targets in Architecture Scenarios.