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Every project has a separate set of settings and user permissions that can be managed using the Project Settings page.

Graphlytic works without any special settings after connecting to a supported graph database, the only thing you have to set is the fulltext index (if you want to be able to use the search functionality). It's just a few clicks. More information and steps on how to set up the fulltext index can be found in the Search Settings.

Opening the Project Settings page

The Project Settings page can be opened in multiple ways:

1.Using the "Settings" option in the project's "Manage" menu (on the Projects page):

2.Using the "Project Settings" option in the Main Menu:

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The layout of the Project Settings page

The Project Settings page consists of multiple panels used for different purposes. Shown in the picture below are:

(1) Project switch - used to switch between projects.

(2) Project Access Permissions - management of data access of various user groups in the project.

(3) Project's Settings - project-specific settings like queries, data schema, styles, etc.

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Project Switch

To switch between settings of various projects use the project switch (#1 on the picture above).

Project Permissions

This panel (#2 in the picture above) allows adding or removal of user groups from the project. Only users from assigned groups are able to access data in the graph.

Access permissions allow controlling how the users are accessing the data. There are three main groups of access permissions (see description in the next chapters):

(1) Application Permissions
(2) Property Security
(3) Entity Security

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Application Permissions (1)

Application permissions set for a user group are shown in the "Permissions" column in the panel. These permissions allow to turn on/off certain features like sharing or exporting of data.

When particular permission is granted to a user group the permission is displayed as a green pill, and when the permission is revoked it's a red pill:

To change the application permissions for a group in a project edit the corresponding mapping (by clicking on the "Edit" icon in the right column). The application permissions are located in the first part of the modal window.

The application permissions can be used to control access of users to various features (see the next table for more details).

Permission title in the configuration window	Short title in the summary table	Description
Export (CSV, images)	Export	Allows exporting of data and images from the application.
Data Access	Data CUD	"Read&Write" or "Read-only" to disable the option to create or modify graph data. See Create, update, delete data for more details.
Data Restrictions	All Data	"No Restrictions" for full access or "Use Access Rules" to limit the access to the graph. When set to "Use Access Rules" additional parts (2) and (3) are shown in the modal window. Check the next chapters for details and examples of access rules configuration.
Visualization Sharing	Sharing	Turning on/off the sharing feature. Users with this permission can share visualizations to any user group of which they are a member, or they can share with users who are members of these groups.
Share visualization	Share Everyone	Use "To Anyone" to allow sharing of visualizations to all users in the project, or "In Groups" to allow users to share only with other users of their groups.
View all visualizations	View All Viz	Users with this permission can see all visualizations in the project (used for admins or in smaller teams to increase the flexibility of collaboration). Users without this permission can view only visualizations created by them or shared with them.

Property Security (2)

With Property Security it is possible to enable or disable certain properties for user groups in the project. The rules are based on two lists of properties:

Enabled properties - if the property is listed in this list it's enabled unless it's disabled (listed in the disabled properties list).
Disabled properties - if the property is listed in this list it's disabled and no user from this group will be able to access the data stored in this property.

A few notes about the rules:

If the property is listed in both lists (enabled and disabled), the property is disabled.
If the user is a member of multiple groups and a particular property is disabled in one group's permissions and enabled in others then the property is enabled for the user.

Entity Security (3)

Entity Security allows limiting graph access for a group of users. Using Access Rule stacking it's possible to define multiple enabled areas in the graph and the final accessible part of the graph will be the union of the parts defined in the rules. Every Access Rule consists of:

Node Labels or Relationship Types - list of labels/types allowed by this rule.
Property conditions - list of properties and their values that will be allowed by this rule. If multiple property values are listed then all of them are allowed (logical OR).

For example: let's imagine we have a graph of Agents in car dealerships selling different car Brands and we want to make access to the data for an office managing UK dealerships for three specific car brands. We can do this using two Access Rules - one restricting the Location of Agents and the other limiting the Brands (shown in the picture below).

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Project's Settings

Project settings (#3 in the picture in chapter 2.) provide a way to access, export, and import all project-scoped settings in one place. Most of the settings are managed in a user-friendly way in the visualization or on the Queries page. This panel is mainly for the convenience of exporting and importing all settings in one zip file.

Visualization default settings

Some of the project settings can be used to set the default configuration of every newly-created visualization:

Data Schema - use Data Schema to format property values (decimal places, currency symbols, or date formats), create global virtual properties, or define input restrictions for graph editing use cases.
Visualization - default settings for any newly-created visualization. Default style mappers, titles, tooltips, thresholds, and much more can be changed in this setting.
Optional but highly recommended is to define Style Mappers. Style Mappers objects are used to define rules on how to visually map the data in the graph to style properties like icons, colors, sizes, etc. Created style mapper objects are listed in the "Style" tab in visualization where you can apply them to style the visualization.

The Visualization and Style Mappers settings can be set with one click from any Visualization - the "Save as default" button is located at the bottom of the Settings tab. First style the visualization as you like and then save the settings with the button. After that, any newly-created visualization will use the exact same configuration as a default config on initialization.

Find details about specific setting options in the following chapters: