Tree

The Tree panel lists the map’s clusters as an expandable hierarchy. Use it to find a cluster by name rather than by hunting for its label on the map, to hide clusters you are not working on, and to turn a cluster into a bag in one click.

Where to find it

View > Exploration > Tree.

What it shows

Each row is one cluster: a colored bar matching the cluster’s color on the map, a caret if the cluster has children, and the cluster label. There is no point count on the row. To see how many points a cluster holds, select it and read the count in the List or Inspector panel.

The tree is built from the clusters the map currently considers visible, plus their immediate children, so it follows the map’s level of detail as you zoom. Rows for clusters in the current selection are shaded.

Cluster rows carry a color bar, a label, and per-row visibility and bag controls.

Clicking a row

Clicking behaves differently depending on whether the cluster has children:

• A cluster with children expands or collapses. It does not select anything.
• A leaf cluster selects all of its points and flies the camera to their centroid, zoomed to fit their spread. Panels that read the selection update with it.

Row controls

• Filter nodes. The box at the top of the panel filters rows as you type. A top-level row survives if its own label matches or if one of its immediate children matches.
• Pencil. Appears on hover. Click it to rename the cluster inline. Press↵ to save or Esc to cancel. The newname is written to the backend; if that call fails the old name is put back and you get an error toast. The map keeps the old label until the space is reloaded.
• Eye. Shows or hides the cluster and everything under it. It has three states: blue for visible, gray for hidden, and amber when a cluster’s subtree is partly hidden. Clicking an amber eye hides the whole subtree.
• Bag. Creates a bag from that cluster’s points, named after the cluster, and highlights it on the map. This is the fastest path from a cluster to a saved group.
• Regular Map / Visual Brainstorming Map. The button beside the filter box switches the tree between the map’s own clusters and the clusters of the Visual Brainstorming Map. In brainstorming mode, clicking a leaf selects its points without moving the camera.

Turn a cluster into a bag

1. Find it. Type part of the cluster name into the filter box.
2. Click the bag icon on the right of the row. The bag is created immediately, named after the cluster, and highlighted on the map.
3. Rename it if you want from the Bags panel.

Limits

• Rows show no counts and no summaries.
• Renaming a cluster updates the tree and the backend, but the label already drawn on the map does not change until you reload the space.
• The eye toggles are read by the legacy renderer only. Hiding a cluster changes what is drawn on Map (Legacy); the default Map ignores it.
• If the panel’s link toggle is off, the tree stops following the map’s clusters and the rename control is hidden.

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