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You can filter a link diagram to show only the types of items you want to see. You can apply more than one filter category to a link diagram. In Link View, you can set filters based on both the types of items and types of links between items.

  • Showing and Hiding Items

  • Showing and Hiding Links

Showing and Hiding Items

Filters can be used to show and hide specific types of items in the link diagram. Available filters appear on the Diagram menu and are represented by buttons on the Link View toolbar. For a list of filter categories, item descriptions, and icons, see .

The following filters apply to all types of items.

Filter category Toolbar button Displays
All items All types of items
External files All types of items outside of the project

Note   The external files filter category can be useful to hide all of the files that are not part of the current Web application.

To select one or more filters

  • From the Diagram menu, choose the filters you want to turn on or off in the current link diagram:
    Filter category Toolbar button Displays
    Documents Files associated with applications, such as Microsoft® Word or Microsoft® PowerPoint®
    Executable files Files representing programs, applications, batch files, scripts, and DLLs
    HTML pages HTML pages, including special types of HTML layouts such as Active Server Pages
    Multimedia files Multimedia files, such as image, audio, video, and virtual reality files
    Other protocols Links using protocols other than http, such as mail, news, and telnet

Note   When you set a filter, it applies to the current link diagram only. If multiple link diagrams are open, you must set filters for each diagram separately.

You can manage the complexity of the link diagram by limiting the types of links that are shown in the diagram. For example, you can choose to hide repeated links and links within a page, or to show only inbound links.

A repeated link occurs if one page has multiple links to another page in the link diagram. For example, if you have a Web page that contains multiple links to your glossary page, you may want to reduce the complexity of the link diagram by hiding all but the first link to the glossary page.

To show and hide repeated links

  • Click Show Repeated Links, , on the Link View toolbar.

    When the Show Repeated Links button is pressed in, a separate icon for each repeated link appears in the link diagram. When the Show Repeated Links button is raised, multiple links from one item to another item in the link diagram are consolidated into a single link.

Bookmark links are links that refer to a different part of the same page. You can hide all the bookmark links in a link diagram to reduce the size and complexity of a link diagram.

To show links inside pages

  • Click Show Links Inside Pages, , on the Link View toolbar.

    When the Show Links Inside Pages button is pressed in, a separate link arrow for each link within a page appears in the link diagram. When the Show Links Inside Pages button is raised, links inside pages do not appear in the link diagram.

You can also filter the link diagram to show only out links or only in links by changing the diagram layout options. For example, showing in links enables you to determine the impact of renaming or deleting an item because you can see other pages that currently link to that item.

Filter category Toolbar button Displays
Show in links Links that point into an expanded item, indicating that the item at the other end of the line links to the expanded item.
Show out links Links that point out of an expanded item, indicating that the expanded item links to the items it points to.
Show in and out links Both links that point out of an expanded item and links that point into an expanded item.

For more information, see Changing a Link Diagram Layout.