consider a situation . There is a company say A. So its a root node. Node is created (n: Comapny{id:'a',title:'A' parentId:''}) . A adds 2 depts say IT Team, the testing team. .So Node is created
({cl:ComapnyLeaf{id:'itTeam',title:'IT Team',parentId:'a'}); ({cl:ComapnyLeaf{id:'testingTeam',title:'TESTING Team',parentId:'a'}); Now it adds emapolyee
({cl:ComapnyLeaf{id:'emp1',title:'Emp 1',parentId:'itTeam'});
so while creating nodes relationship between them should be created my final out will look like
Company(A) < ---- child--- it Team <----child---emp1
< ---- child--- Testing Team
I think you need to recheck your query and your desired output, you have misspellings and bad syntax in there, and your output doesn't reflect your input. The testing team should end up being the child of :Company node a, not the Emp 1 :CompanyLeaf node.
Let's first create the nodes like this (you'll need to enable the multi-statement query editor in the Neo4j Browser preferences):
CREATE (n:Company:Node {id:'a', title:'A'});
CREATE (cl:CompanyLeaf:Node {id:'itTeam', title:'IT Team', parentId:'a'});
CREATE (cl:CompanyLeaf:Node {id:'testingTeam', title:'TESTING Team', parentId:'a'});
CREATE (cl:CompanyLeaf:Node {id:'emp1', title:'Emp 1', parentId:'itTeam'});
Then let's add an index on :Node(id) to support the fast lookups we'll need to create the relationships.
CREATE INDEX ON :Node(id)
Then for checking all :CompanyLeaf nodes in the graph and attaching them to a node with the given id as the parent, we can use this:
MATCH (c:CompanyLeaf)
WHERE NOT (c)-[:PARENT]->()
MATCH (parent:Node {id:c.parentId})
CREATE (c)-[:PARENT]->(parent)
The WHERE NOT clause here makes sure we don't create duplicate relationships in case we already ran the query, or in case we do several imports of nodes with relationship creation happening in between.
Also this is creating :PARENT relationships pointing the parent, since your example didn't make sense with :child relationships pointing to the parent.
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I created my database in "SCHEMA-Editor" from structr.org. I have two nodes "Project" and "ProjectManager" and relationship between these is "MEMBER".
I made a cypher query to create the graph like this:
MATCH (a:Project),(b:ProjectManager)
WHERE a.name = 'X' AND b.name = 'Y'
CREATE (a)-[r:MEMBER]->(b)
RETURN r,a,b;
And i expected to display the graph, but i got this message: "MEMBER.id must_not_be_empty"
Nodes and relationships created with Cypher are not immediately usable in Structr, because Cypher bypasses the Structr layer and acts directly on the database level. There are some extra steps that need to be done to make an object known to Structr: it needs an id attribute that contains a random UUID (universally unique identifier).
See "Tools" -> "Admin" -> "Relationships" -> "Add UUIDs" in the Schema Editor.
Additional tip: in Cypher, you should use MERGE instead of CREATE to avoid creating duplicate relationships between the two nodes (depending on your use-case).
I want to add a relationship between two nodes, but only if the relationship does not exist. For example:
The Relationship between node1 and node2 currently exists with these properties: time:41221323,link:www.google.com
I am trying to add a relationship with different properties for example:
time:5344241,link:www.google.com
In this case i want to keep the original properties on the relationship.
You can use the below CQL query:
MATCH(a: startNodeLabel {attributes to match start node})
MATCH(m:endNodeLabel {attributes to match end node})
MERGE(a)-[:relationshipName]->(m)
The above merge statement creates relation between nodes a and m if there is no existing relationship between a and m.
You want either the MERGE or CREATE UNIQUE clause:
http://neo4j.com/docs/stable/query-merge.html
http://neo4j.com/docs/stable/query-create-unique.html
Also note that MERGE comes with additional ON CREATE SET and ON MATCH SET so you can control when properties get set.
I believe if you give either specific properties as part of the match syntax it will not create only if all of the properties match exactly.
Create Unique clause does serve this purpose. Neo4j Documet says
CREATE UNIQUE is in the middle of MATCH and CREATE — it will match
what it can, and create what is missing. CREATE UNIQUE will always
make the least change possible to the graph — if it can use parts of
the existing graph, it will.
START a=node(...), b=node(...)
CREATE UNIQUE (a)-[r:LIKES]-(b)
return a,b;
I first create this 2:
CREATE (user1:Person {name:"User1"})
CREATE (user2:Person {name:"User2"})
And when I try
CREATE (user1)-[:FOLLOWS]->(user2)
It creates 2 empty nodes with no name nor anything related by the FOLLOW, but both nodes "User1"and "User2" are never blessed by my simple intention of relating them.
Why is this simple thing not working?
You are processing the statements separately. The user1 and user2 are identifiers that apply to a specific cypher statement. By the time you execute the last statement cypher no longer has a reference for user1 and user2.
You could write
match (u1:Person {name:"User1"}), (u2:Person {name:"User2"})
create (u1)-[:FOLLOWS]->(u2)
and that would find the nodes that you had previously created and join them with the :FOLLOWS relationship.
So when you just specified the identifiers int eh create statement it would match every node and join them.
I have imported a CSV where each Node contains 3 columns. id, parent_id, and title. This is a simple tree structure i had in mysql. Now i need to create the relationships between those nodes considering the parent_id data. So each node to node will have 2 relationships as parent and child. Im really new to node4j and suggestions ?
i tried following, but no luck
MATCH (b:Branch {id}), (bb:Branch {parent_id})
CREATE (b)-[:PARENT]->(bb)
It seems as though your cypher is very close. The first thing you are going to want to do is create an index on the id and parent_id properties for the label Branch.
CREATE INDEX ON :Branch(id)
CREATE INDEX ON :Branch(parent_id)
Once you have indexes created you want to match all of the nodes with the label Branch (I would limit this with a specific value to start to make sure you create exactly what you want) and for each find the corresponding parent by matching on your indexed attributes.
MATCH (b:Branch), (bb:Branch)
WHERE b.id = ???
AND b.parent_id = bb.id
CREATE (b)-[:PARENT]->(bb)
Once you have proved this out on one branch and you get the results you expect I would run it for more branches at once. You could still choose to do it in batches depending on the number of branches in your graph.
After you have created all of the :PARENT relationships you could optionally remove all of the parent_id properties.
MATCH (b:Branch)-[:PARENT]->(:Branch)
WHERE exists(b.parent_id)
REMOVE b.parent_id
I am not sure what I am doing wrong here, so here is how I create nodes
CREATE (urlnode_1:UrlNode {url:'url1', nodenumber:1})
CREATE (urlnode_2:UrlNode {url:'url2', nodenumber:2})
I create relations as follows
CREATE
(urlnode_1)-[:OutLink {anchor_text:['MY']}]->(urlnode_2)
Two nodes are created successfully first, now on running the code to create the relation, I would have liked the relation to exist between the two created nodes but it creates two new nodes say 3 and 4 and shows a relation between them. What am i doing wrong here?
To guide you the best way I can, let's sum up some Neo4j basics concerning node and relationships creation :
A node can have one or more labels, labels are meaned to group the nodes by domain (User, Speaker, Company, etc..see a label as a table name for e.g. ). A node can also have properties.
A relationship can have only ONE type, relationships are organizing the graph. Relationships can also have properties.
To create a node, you can use the CREATE writing clause :
CREATE (n:Person {firstname: 'John'})
The CREATE statement will not check if other nodes with same label and properties already exists, it will just create a new node
Relationships can also be created with the same clause :
MATCH (n:Person {firstname: 'John'}), (p:Person {firstname: 'Pierre'})
CREATE (n)-[:KNOWS]->(p)
A complete pattern can also be created in one go :
CREATE (n:Person {name:'Chris'})-[:KNOWS]->(p:Person {name:'Oliver'})
REMINDER : CREATE will not check for existing nodes.
--- AND NOW MERGE ---
MERGE will lazily check for existing nodes, see him as a MATCH OR CREATE clause :
MERGE (n:Person {firstname:'Fred'})
If the node with label Person and firstname Fred does not exist, the node will be created, otherwise nothing will happen. This is where come the handy ON MATCH and ON CREATE mentionned by #joslinm .
If you run this query multiple times after the node creation, your graph will not change, if you know the http protocol, you can say that MERGE is an indempotent request.
Be aware that, MERGE will ensure that an entire pattern exist in the database, by creating it if it does not already exist, meaning that if you do MERGE with a complete pattern, the entire pattern will be looked up for existence, not a single node :
Say a node with label Person and name property with value 'John' already exist in the db :
MERGE (n:Person {name:'John'})
will not affect the graph
However :
MERGE (n:Person {name:'John'})-[:KNOWS]->(:Person {name:'Nathalia'})
A new John node will be created, because the entire pattern does not exist.
It is recommended to use MERGE incrementally :
MERGE (n:Person {name:'John'})
MERGE (p:Person {name:'Nathalia'})
MERGE (n)-[:KNOWS]->(p)
If you want to know more about the MERGE clause, I can highly recommend you this wonderful article from Luanne on GraphAware : http://graphaware.com/neo4j/2014/07/31/cypher-merge-explained.html
Chris
If you create a relationship, a new one will get created every single time. They are not inherently unique. It sounds like you'd rather be merging the relationship; i.e., if they relationship is there, match it, if not, create it.
The merge syntax for it is as follows:
MERGE (a:Node)-[:LIKES]->(b:Node)
ON
MATCH SET a.msg = 'I matched!'
ON
CREATE SET a.msg = 'I created!'
RETURN a
You can try it out here: http://console.neo4j.org/
You'll notice that first the msg will be "I created!" then after it matches, it will be "I matched!"