Project Description
SPGraphviz - create your own visualization graphs without programming in Sharepoint. Just define graph on DOT language in simple text file, upload it into document library and specify URL in SPGraphvizWebPart - it will make graphical representation of your graph
Usage
- Define graph using the DOT language in simple .txt file. E.g. the graph shown at the beginning of this page is defiend using the following file:
digraph example {
size="6,6";
node [color=lightblue2, style=filled];
"Start page" -> "Departments";
"Start page" -> "News";
"Start page" -> "Personal sites";
"Departments" -> "IT";
"Departments" -> "HR";
"Departments" -> "Sales";
"Personal sites" -> "Alexey Sadomov";
"Personal sites" -> "...";
}
As you see it is quite straightforward: you define digraph and relationships between nodes. DOT is very flexible language, but you don't need to know it deeply. For simple scenarios you can use this example as a reference. For more layout settings you can check examples from
Graphviz gallery
- Upload created .txt file with graph definition into document library in your site collection
- Specify absolute URL of uploaded file in web part properties (Custom Properties > Dot file URL):
(in our example I specified the following URL in "Dot file URL" property: http://example.com/Documents/test.txt)
- Click Apply. Graphical representation of the graph will be shown on the publishing page:
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