Hiding Links¶
The Workbench provides two ways to hide links in a topology.
Hiding Connected Links¶
To reduce visual clutter in the Workbench, you can set a node to hide its connected links.
This feature can be activated/deactivated on a per node basis by double clicking the node. The Workbench displays the node with a reduced opacity to indicate that the node has its links hidden. The links will only be hidden while the node is not selected. That is, if you select such a node, all of its links will be shown. When you deselect the node, the links will be hidden again.
For example, double click the gw-switch node to set that node’s links to be hidden. Then, when gw-switch is not selected, its links are hidden.
Link Bundling¶
By default, when there are multiple links between the same two nodes in the Workbench, they are bundled into a single link for display in the canvas.
You can choose to disable link bundling in the canvas so that all of the links connecting a pair of nodes are shown. To change the link bundling behavior for all links in a lab, toggle the bundling links button in the Workbench toolbar. You can also change this behavior for a specific pair of nodes basis by double clicking a link connecting the two nodes. If multiple links are shown between the pair or nodes, double clicking on a single link will hide the individual links and instead display a single bundled link. For a bundled link, double clicking on the link shows all of the physical links instead of the one bundled link.
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