Settings

You can access the application's settings via the main menu: Settings.

Termboard offers two types of settings:

• Document Settings: These settings are specific to the current graph you are working on and are saved within the document file.
• Application Settings: These settings apply to Termboard as a whole and will be used for any document you open.

Document Settings

These settings allow you to customize the appearance and behavior of the current graph.

• Rotate relation names: When checked, the labels for relations will be drawn parallel to the relation arrow. If unchecked, they will be displayed horizontally.
• Hide properties: If enabled, terms that are classified as type "property" will not be displayed in the graph view. See term details
• Inherit relations: When active, the RELATIONS tab and the VERBALISATION tab in the term sidebar will recursively display relations associated with the term's parent(s). A parent term is defined as a term connected by a relation of type "Generalization" pointing towards it.
• Use Term Weights: Enabling this option adds a "Weight" field to the Term DETAILS tab in the term sidebar, allowing you to assign a numerical weight to individual terms.
• Use Relation weights: Similar to term weights, this option adds a "Weight" field when editing relations, allowing you to assign a numerical weight to the connections between terms. Set the value in the Relation DETAILS tab
• Hide Relation types: When checked, only the relation types you explicitly select will be visible in the graph. Click the RELATION TYPES button below to choose which types to display.
• Color Relation types: If enabled, each distinct relation type in your graph will be displayed with a unique color, making it easier to visually differentiate them.
• Relation types legend: Check this box to display a legend that maps the colors used in the graph to their corresponding relation types. This option is only visible if you have enabled either "Color Relation types" or "Hide Relation types."
• Cardinality for relations: Select this option to enable the use of cardinalities for relations. For more information, see Cardinalities.
• Scale Term size: This setting allows you to dynamically adjust the size of term boxes based on their connections:
  • none: Terms will maintain a uniform size.
  • Relations total: The size of a term's box will increase based on the total number of incoming and outgoing relations connected to it.
  • Relations IN: The size will scale based only on the number of incoming relations.
  • Relations OUT: The size will scale based only on the number of outgoing relations.
• Scale Term color: This setting dynamically changes the background color of terms from green to red based on a selected metric:
  • Term weight: The color is determined by the weight assigned to the term.
  • Relation weight: The color is determined by the sum of the weights of all relations connected to the term.
  • Relations total, IN, OUT: Similar to the "Scale Term size" options, the color is based on the total, incoming, or outgoing number of relations, respectively.

The following buttons provide access to related settings pages:

• Relation types: Navigates to the Relation type settings page, where you can manage and define different relation types. See Relation type settings
• Extra fields: Opens the Extra Fields settings page, allowing you to define custom fields for your terms and relations. See Extra Fields settings
• Document properties: Opens a dialog where you can change the name and add a description to the current document.

Application Settings

These settings control the general behavior and appearance of Termboard across all documents you work with.

• Tooltips for description: If enabled, hovering your mouse cursor over a term in the graph will display a tooltip containing the term's description.
• Grid: When checked, a visual grid will be displayed on the canvas, providing a spatial reference for arranging elements.
• Create relation+term: If this option is enabled, dragging a relation arrow from a term and releasing the mouse on an empty area of the canvas will automatically create a new term at the release point and connect it to the original term with the drawn relation.
• Snap to Grid: When active and you are dragging terms on the canvas, the terms will automatically align (snap) to the lines of the grid (if the Grid is enabled).
• Animate Layout: Enabling this setting will display an animation of the layout algorithm in progress when you apply a layout to your graph. You will see the terms and relations moving into their final positions. Disabling this will show only the final layout result without the animation.
• Additive selection: When checked, selecting new elements (terms or relations) by clicking or using selection tools will add them to the current selection instead of replacing it. This allows you to select multiple elements incrementally.
• Save instead of download: If enabled, the "Save" and "Export" functions will allow you to choose a specific location on your computer to save your files. If disabled, files will be automatically downloaded to your browser's default download location.
• Resizable terms: When selected, rectangular resize handles will appear on the border of a selected term in the graph. Dragging these handles allows you to manually change the size of the term's bounding box.
• Set order of relations in bulk add: This setting determines the expected order of columns when using the bulk add feature (accessible via the chatbot in the right sidebar). It aligns the prompts and the "Relation" input box with a specific column order. Refer to bulk updates for more details on the expected column order.
• Highlight on ALT+SHIFT+click: When you press and hold the ALT and SHIFT keys and then click on a term, related elements in the graph will be highlighted according to the selected option:
  • Neighbours: Highlights all terms and relations that are directly connected to the clicked term (both incoming and outgoing).
  • Outgoers: Highlights only the relations originating from the clicked term and the terms they connect to.
  • Incomers: Highlights only the relations pointing towards the clicked term and the terms they originate from.