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The visualization canvas has four groups of controls: a title bar and a tool strip on the left, the currency toggle and Share on the right, and the zoom controls at the bottom.

Left tool strip

The tool strip on the left of the canvas
ToolWhat it does
Lock nodesKeeps every object where it is: none can be dragged, and a drag moves the canvas instead. Objects can still be selected, edited and deleted.
Manual placementPlaces each new object beside the one it was added from and leaves the rest of the graph as it is. With it off, adding objects lays the graph out again, keeping the objects you moved by hand where you put them.
Create CommentAdds a comment. Right-click for settings, double-click to pick the type first. See Comments.
Create NoteAdds a note.
Fit ViewZooms so the whole graph fits on screen.
Auto layoutRe-arranges the graph automatically: the whole graph, or only the group you are in. Each expanded group’s contents stay together.
Merged Txs ModeCombines every transaction between the same two objects into one line carrying the total, and how many there are when there are several.
Pin positionsCounts every object on the canvas as moved by hand, so the layout that follows an addition leaves them all where they are. Auto layout still re-arranges everything.
Show DateShows the date on transaction connections.
Group the selectionTurns the selected objects into a group. See Groups.
Suggest groupsProposes groups from the patterns in the graph. See Suggest groups.
Undo / RedoStep back and forward. Greyed out when there is nothing to step to.

Merged Txs Mode is not shown on a graph built in connection based mode. Those graphs already draw one line per relationship, so there is nothing left to merge.

Title bar

The title bar above the canvas
  • Title: click to rename the visualization.
  • ⋯ menu: the export options, below.
  • Save: writes your changes. Tracer also saves automatically about once a minute.
  • Search: add an address, transaction or entity to the canvas, singly or in a batch. See Search.

Save before closing the tab. Auto-save runs on a timer, not on every change, so the last minute of work is the part at risk.

Currency and Share

Top-right of the canvas:

  • Crypto / USD: switches displayed amounts between the asset’s own units and US dollars. Not shown on connection based graphs.
  • Share: public link and access, covered in Sharing and access.

On a shared read-only graph this corner holds Create copy instead of Share.

Zoom controls

Zoom controls at the bottom left of the canvas
  • − and + zoom out and in, and grey out at the limits.
  • The percentage between them shows the current zoom. Click it to return to 100%.
  • Help lists the keyboard shortcuts. Escape closes any open panel.
  • Icons explains what each icon on the canvas means.

Export

From the ⋯ menu in the title bar:

  • Export all Addresses to CSV
  • Export all Tx hashes to CSV
  • Export as PNG: the canvas as an image, for a report or a slide. Inside a group, the image shows that group’s level.

Both CSV exports end with a group column naming the groups each row belongs to; see Groups.

The export menu

Per-transaction lists have their own exports: the Connections view exports the transactions between two objects, capped at 1000 rows.

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