I need to set specific property of a node as display name for that node.Till now, I am doing the same through the neo4j UI.
I am selecting the specify property from the list below, where arrow is pointing, as a display on nodes and relationships.
I want to do the same through the Cypher.
Ex: MATCH (n:SERVER) RETURN n
To this n, I want to set ip as the display name.
Cypher is only for reading and writing to a neo4j DB. It provides no support for controlling DB visualization; nor should it, since there is no standardized way to visualize a neo4j DB. I am afraid you will have to continue to use the neo4j browser to control how it displays your data.
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I'm running the following query using apoc.gephi.add to display data from Neo4j in Gephi.
MATCH path = (pr1:Person)-[*0..2]->(pr2:Person)
WHERE pr1.id={id1} AND pr2.id={id2} AND pr1.id<>pr2.id
CALL apoc.gephi.add ('http://localhost:8091', 'workspace', path)
YIELD nodes, relationships ,properties
RETURN *
In Gephi I'm able to see the Type of the nodes and relationships, but I'm not able to see the properties of the nodes or properties in Gephi (looking in the Data laboratory).
Any ideas?
apoc.gephi.add procedure has 2 others optional parameters : weight property and properties.
The one you want is properties : it's a list of all the properties you want to give to gephi. Basically, apoc gives nothing.
you can use 'add' like this :
CALL apoc.gephi.add ('http://localhost:8091', 'workspace', path, ['prop1','prop2'...])
More details here.
And if you want to learn more about neo4j with gephi, this is a good tutorial, which could in addition learn you how to use weight property, a very cool feature to make relevant graphs.
I'm building a Neo4J system just do to visualization in the Neo4J browser. I build the various nodes and relationships and I can visualize the database by running match (n) return n. The problem is that the resulting display shows the relationship names but not their associated properties. Can anyone tell me the cypher query to show the entire database including relationship properties? Thanks.
The neo4j browser does not support visualizing all properties (for nodes or relationships) at the same time. Such a capability would generally result in a very congested and unusable visualization, especially since the browser would also have to display the property names.
You can, however, opt to show the value of a single property per node label or or relationship type as its caption. You can do that manually, or you can edit the GRASS file to set all of the captions at once. As an example of how to set relationship captions in the GRASS file, the following entry in that file would specify that all BAR relationships should show their foo property:
relationship.BAR {
caption: '{foo}';
}
I've got my graph database, populated with nodes, relationships, properties etc. I'd like to see an overview of how the whole database is connected, each relationship to each node, properties of a node etc.
I don't mean view each individual node, but rather something like an ERD from a relational database, something like this, with the node labels. Is this possible?
You can use the metadata by running the command call db.schema().
In Neo4j v4 call db.schema() is deprecated, you can now use call db.schema.visualization()
As far as I know, there is no straight-forward way to get a nicely pictured diagram of a neo4j database structure.
There is a pre-defined query in the neo4j browser which finds all node types and their relationships. However, it traverses the complete graph and may fail due to memory errors if you have to much data.
Also, there is neoprofiler. It's a tool which claims to so what you ask. I never tried and it didn't get too many updates lately. Still worth a try: https://github.com/moxious/neoprofiler
Even though this is not a graphical representation, this query will give you an idea on what type of nodes are connected to other nodes with what type of relationship.
MATCH (n)
OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]->(x)
WITH DISTINCT {l1: labels(n), r: type(r), l2: labels(x)}
AS `first degree connection`
RETURN `first degree connection`;
You could use this query to then unwind the labels to write that next cypher query dynamically (via a scripting language and using the REST API) and then paste that query back into the neo4j browser to get an example set of the data.
But this should be good enough to get an overview of your graph. Expand from here.
I want to change the color of my nodes based on their properties:
Say I have many "Person" nodes. And I want those who live in New York to be red and those who live in Los Angeles to be blue. How would I write that. In cypher or in py2neo?
The styling of nodes and relationships in Neo4j Browser is controlled by a graph style sheet (GRASS), a cousin of CSS. You can view the current style by typing :style in the browser. To edit it, you can click on nodes and relationships and pick colors and sizes, or you can view the style sheet (:style), download it, make changes, and drag-n-drop it back into the view window.
Unfortunately for your case, color can only be controlled a) for all nodes and all relationships or b) for nodes by label and relationships by type. Properties can only be used for the text displayed on the node/rel.
It is not possible to interact with neo4j browser pro-grammatically. But the end goal could be achieved through a hack.
Even though I am a bit late here want to help others who might be finding a way. It is not possible to change the color of the nodes based on the property but there is a way it can be achieved by creating nodes based on the property. Keep in mind that after applying these queries your data wont be the same. So it is always a good idea to keep a backup of your data.
This is how labels are colored by default (Before):
Color based on the property
Suppose there is a label called Case with a property nationality and you want to color the nodes based on nationality. So following query could be used to create labels out of nationality property. For this you will need to install apoc library. check here for installation.
// BY NATIONALITY
MATCH (n:Case)
WITH DISTINCT n.nationality AS nationality, collect(DISTINCT n) AS persons
CALL apoc.create.addLabels(persons, [apoc.text.upperCamelCase(nationality)]) YIELD node
RETURN *
This will return all the people by nationality. Now you can color by country of nationality. Below shows an example.
Color based on the property and load with other labels
Lets say you also have a label called Cluster.The cases are attached to clusters via relationships. Just change the query to following to get the clusters with their relationships to cases.
//BY NATIONALITY WITH CLUSTERS
MATCH (n:Case),(c:Cluster)
WITH DISTINCT n.nationality AS nationality,
collect(DISTINCT n) AS persons,
collect(DISTINCT c) AS clusters
CALL apoc.create.addLabels(persons, [apoc.text.upperCamelCase(nationality)]) YIELD node
RETURN *
It will return cases and clusters with all the relationships. Below shows example.
Please leave an up vote if this was helpful and want to let others know that this is an acceptable answer. Thank you.
You cannot include formatting of the output in Cypher queries in the neo4j browser. Currently, the only way is to change the graph view manually or load a graph style file.
See tutorial here: http://neo4j.com/developer/guide-neo4j-browser/
Also, you cannot interact with the neo4j browser from py2neo.
If you are happy setting the color through a graphical user interface rather than programatically, Neo4j also supplies a data exploration addon named bloom. When using this addon (now automatically installed when using neo4j desktop), it is possible to set node color based on its properties.
In the example below, movies released after 2002 are colored green.
TL,DR: I need a query which gives me all nodes/relationships which contain a certain value (in my case a string, so much I know), without knowing which property(key) contains the string. I am using neo4j(latest version), meteor (latest version) and the meteor neo4j driver, which is recommended on the neo4j website for meteor.
Currently I am working (as part of my bachelor thesis) on a tool to visualize the output of any Cypher query on any database, regardless of the database contents.
So far I've managed to correctly display nodes/relationships which are coming out. My problem now is to visualize (get nodes and relationships to feed into my frontend) textual queries like (taken from the neo4j movie database, which I am using for development)
MATCH (tom:Person {name:"Tom Hanks"})-[:ACTED_IN]->(m)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(coActors)
RETURN coActors.name
This kind of queries only returns an array of strings and not whole nodes or relationships. I now need some way (preferably a Cypher query) to get all nodes which contain for example the string "Audrey Tatou".
The problem I've now run into is that I didn't find a way to write a query which doesn't need something like
MATCH n
WHERE Person.name = "some name"
Since I don't know anything about the contents of the database I cannot use
WHERE propertyName = "propertyValue"
since I only know the value but not the name of the property.
The only solution here will be to get every nodes with your label and check properties and values using reflection on client side.
Using cypher, the solution would be to get all properties and their values and parse their values using a foreach loop. Maybe you can do this, but I'm really not sure, it's a recent feature but you can still give a try.
Here is what I found for the cypher solution: How can I return all properties for a node using Cypher?
So, you have query that returns array of string.
In fact - you can receive almost anything as result. Cypher is capable to return just bare strings, that are not related to anything.
Long story short - you can't vizualize this data, because of this data nature. Best you can do is to represent them as table (or similar), like Neo4j browser do this.
But, there is (probably) solution for you. Neo4j has feature called Legacy indexing. And there you can find full text indexes. Maybe this can help you.
You can just use a driver that returns nodes and rels, or if you do the queries manually add resultDataContents entry
{statements:[{statement:"MATCH ..","resultDataContents",["graph"]}]}
to your payload and you get nodes and relationships back.