Relationship Gradient Settings

These settings allow you to use color and line settings to represent the range of differences among relationships. Using the Entity Gradient Settings example, your model with city information may have a field that includes each city's rank based on population. The city having the highest population, with a rank of "1", could have a color gradient of lavender, and the city having the lowest population, with a rank of 100 (presuming there were 100 cities in the model), could have a color gradient of dark purple. Likewise, you could set the thickness of the relationship to go from thinnest (lowest-ranked city) to thickest (highest-ranked city). You determine the size of the thinnest and thickest lines, and everything else falls in between.
Note: You would need to check the Low values are more significant box for this example.
Gradient Value
  • Gradient property—Sets the field on which the gradient is based.
  • Override least/most significant values—Overrides the default lowest and highest values used for gradient.
  • Least significant value—Shows the value for the lowest gradient property.
  • Most significant value—Shows the value for the highest gradient property.
  • Low values are more significant—Specifies that low values are preferable to high values, such as with a scale of 1-5, when "1" is the highest rating.

Color Settings

  • Apply to relationships color—Activates the color settings options.
  • Use these colors —Allows you to select the colors you want the gradient to use.
  • Low value—Sets the color for the relationships with the lowest value.
  • High value—Sets the color for the relationships with the highest value.
  • Scale relationship color by —Retains the relationship's color but with varying hue, saturation or brightness (depending on each entity's gradient value).
  • Low %—Sets the low percentage for the scale. For example, if this number is "20" and you chose "Saturation" in the previous field and red as the fill color, relationships with the lowest gradient value would have a 20% red color.
  • High %—Sets the high percentage for the scale. For example, if this number is "100" and you chose "Saturation" in the previous field and red as the fill color, relationships with the highest gradient value would have a 100% red color.

Line Settings

  • Apply to relationships thickness—Activates the line settings options.
  • Use these sizes—Allows you to select the sizes you want the gradient to use.
  • Low value—Sets the size for the relationships with the lowest value.
  • High value—Sets the size for the relationships with the highest value.
  • Scale relationship thickness by—Changes the relationships' sizes (depending on each entity's gradient value).
  • Low %—Sets the low percentage for the scale. For example, if this number is "20", relationships with the lowest gradient value would have a size that is 20% of the highest number's size.
  • High %—Sets the high percentage for the scale. For example, if this number is "100", relationships with the highest gradient value would have a size that is 100%.
  • Scale label size—Changes the size of the relationship's label relative to the size of the relationship.

Click OK to make color and line settings changes to your model.