Visibility Options

As well as customising your nodes, you have control over several visibility options in Realisor that you can use to alter the appearance of your map. These can be found in two places within the Performance Map section – within the ‘View’ section on the Home tab and within the ‘General Visibility’ section of the Map View tab. 

Let’s look at the ones in the Home tab first. 

The options here are ‘Show Weights’, ‘Show Qualities’, ‘Show Measures’ and ‘Show Connections’. When Realisor is loaded 'Show Qualities', Show Benefits', and ‘Show Connections’ are automatically turned on. This means that the Qualities attached to the Initiatives, any benefit measure that is added to an Outcome node and any links made between nodes are visible. Turning on Show Weights will display the weights on the links between the modules and the weights on the qualities*.

Now let’s take a look at the Map View tab. In here, there are some options that are duplicated from the Home tab but there are also some new visibility functions.

The first option is to ‘Left Correct’. There are two modelling styles - with Outcomes to the left hand side of the map, which is the default setting in Realisor or Outcomes to the right hand side of the map. Realisor allows you to change between these two styles of mapping by using the Outcomes First option and the Left Correct button. Note that this option is only available if the Outcomes First setting has been enabled in the file menu.

Nodes on Top simply means that any nodes and links overlap in the model, the node will appear on top of the link.

The next new visibility option in this tab is ‘Plain Node’. Plain nodes removes the ‘extra decorations’ from the nodes on the Outcome Map. The nodes become a single colour block rather than a colour graded block and outlines are removed.

Show Text Boxes displays the white outline of the node title text box in all of your nodes, regardless of whether there is text in the box or not.

Use External IDs allows you to display any external IDs that you have set on the nodes in place of the default node IDs.

‘Show IDs’ shows or hides the ID values on all node types. Similarly ‘Show Minor IDs’ shows or hides the ID values on the minor nodes - the Benefit Measures and Qualities.

‘Show Line Descriptions’ shows and hides any descriptions that have been added to the connections on the map.

‘Show Line Lags’ shows and hides the lag times on links between programmatic nodes, such as processes, functions etc.

Show Node Sizes displays a red box around selected node/s on the map, displaying the height/width of the node/s, which can be changed by typing values into the boxes.

The remaining visibility options in the tab - Show Ghosts, Show Node Groups, Show Contribution, Show Value Flow and Measure RAG will be covered in separate posts as they relate to more complex functionality in Realisor.

*Note that 'Show Connections' may be displayed in the Map View tab rather than the Home tab depending upon your version of Realisor.