#Freeplane conditional node formatting how to
#Freeplane conditional node formatting update

Now for Set of Expressions choose 'Create a new expressions set.'. We will use the default formatting so just click OK, but you could change the formatting characteristics if you wanted. The new type of formatting dialog will appear. You would only want to do this if you wanted a different set of bins or formatting characteristics. Do not choose 'Create a new from 'Traffic lights' template.' as this would create a second duplicate type of formatting for traffic lights. This type of formatting is associated with and stored with the grid view so it can be re-used when formatting any column in that grid view. This selects the existing traffic lights type of formatting that you created when formatting the Mol Weight field. The Conditional Formatting dialog will open.įor the type of formatting select 'Traffic lights'. Select the Donors column and click on the Conditional formatting button in the toolbar. Of course the rules will be different, but the process is much the same. Here we apply the same traffic light formatting to the Donors column.

Click on the Close button and you will now see your traffic lights conditional formatting applied to the Mol Weight column.

This means that values failing all the previous tests will be assigned to the Red bin. This means that if the value has failed the previous test then it will be tested against this rule and if it passes then the value will be assigned to the 'Yellow' bin.įinally specify 'Red' for the 'Otherwise' test. This rule means that values are tested and if they are less than or equal to 400 then they are assigned to the Green bin of the Traffic Lights rule set.Īdd another rule by pressing the '+' button and for this rule specify '500' as the value and 'Yellow' as the outcome. Specify '400' as the value for the first rule, and leave the outcome as 'Green'. But we don't need that so we leave the data field unchanged. This allows you to format one column using the values of a different field. You could change the data field whose values are used to conditionally format our Mol Weight column. This name identifies the type of formatting in the grid view so that it can be used again when you conditionally format additional columns. You can optionally change the name from the default.

#Freeplane conditional node formatting update

The conditional formatting dialog will update to show that it now using the traffic lights type of formatting.We will use the default traffic lights formatting so just click OK, but you could change the formatting characteristics if you wanted. For the type of formatting select 'Create a new from 'Traffic lights' template.'.

The Conditional Formatting dialog will open. Select the Mol Weight column and click on the Conditional formatting button ( )in the toolbar.We want to display values less than 400 as green, those between 400 and 500 as yellow and those greater than 500 as red. Here we apply traffic light formatting to the molecular weight field. The grid view will open in the main window.Ĭonditionally format the Mol Weight column Select 'Default grid view' as the view type and give the view a name. You of course will probably be doing this with your own data.Ĭhoose IJC Project (local database with demo data).įind the PubChem demo data tree in the projects window.

This example uses the demo data that is provided with IJC. It provides a basic guide, and assumes you are using a pre-existing template.

#Freeplane conditional node formatting how to

This pages provides an example of how to apply conditional formatting to a form or grid view. Conditional Formatting Step by Step Guide