Scenes and sharing data
When you are working with a dataset, sometimes you may need more than one Scene to achieve your objective. By using the Scene button, you can expand the Scene panel from which you can add a new Scene, or rename, duplicate, or delete your existing Scene(s). The Scene panel is also where you switch between your Scenes, including any Scenes shared with you. If you have multiple Scenes saved, the search box allows you to filter through them.
The number of available Scenes is determined by the tier of the connected instance. For Aura Free, you can have three Scenes per user, Aura Professional can have five Scenes per user, and Aura Business Critical as well as Virtual Dedicated Cloud can have unlimited Scenes.
Whenever you make any changes to a Scene, i.e. any changes to filters, the graph, the visualization, or the style, the Scene is automatically saved. If you switch Scene, the Scene you left is the same when you return to it.
Style settings for a Scene is determined by the Perspective by default. If you change the styling, the changes only affect the current Scene and any new Scenes you create follow the Perspective styling.
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Scenes rely on node and relationship IDs in Neo4j. Changes to this underlying data can cause data in saved Scenes to appear incorrectly if IDs are reused by the database. This also applies when you pause and then restore an instance. |
Sharing options
Explore allows you to share your insights. When you find an interesting Scene, you have different options to share it, depending on who you want to share it with. The options are accessed with the Export button in the top right corner of your Scene.
CSV files
The first option is to extract your results as CSV files. First you select what data in the Scene to capture. By default everything is selected, but you can refine as you like by enable/disable node labels, relationship types, and/or properties on both nodes and relationships.
When you have done so, you need to decide in what form to export.
You can export all the data in your Scene in one single CSV file, graph-export.csv, by leaving that box checked.
This file contains all the data for every relationship, i.e. start node info, end node info, as well as relationship info.
Additionally, you can add separate CSV files for nodes (node-export.csv) and relationships (relationship-export.csv), respectively, by leaving those boxes checked as well.
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Exporting data in a Scene as CSV files allows you to use your results in other applications.
Screenshot
If you want to share your Scene with someone without access to the database, you can take a screenshot to export. This lets you to share your insights without allowing outside interaction with the elements in your Scene.
The screenshot can be saved as either a .png file or .svg file, select the option suitable for your use case. Regardless of file format, he screenshot is captured and saved to your Downloads folder.