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yFiles

yFiles is the industry-leading software library for visualizing, editing and analyzing graphs.
The Graph Visualization SDK is available for 5 major platforms and technologies: HTML, JavaFX, Java (Swing), WinForms, and WPF.

Are you a web developer working on graph and diagramming applications? The new major release of yFiles for HTML version 3.0 is now available!
This release features a modernized API, powerful new capabilities, and major improvements to streamline development and enhance graph visualization. Get early access to explore what's new and see how it can enrich your projects.

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Release Notes
yFiles for HTML (3.0.0.1)
yFiles .NET (WinForms) (5.6)
yFiles WPF (3.6)
yFiles for JavaFX (3.6)
yFiles for Java (Swing) (3.6)
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Features

Graphing that fits your needs

yFiles is the most advanced and complete graphing tool on the market. Our powerful and flexible API offers a wide array of functions - right out of the box. Just select the options that best suit your requirements.

yFiles has advanced customizable layouts for visualizations, such as UML diagrams.
Suitable layouts for every use case
Choose from a huge number of predefined layouts and configure them to perfectly fit the task at hand.
yFiles provides the widest range of high-quality automatic layout arrangements in the industry. Over a dozen different applications with several hundred different settings let you fine-tune the output. With the right algorithm and configuration, you can add relevant information to your visualization, helping users find answers to their questions, simply by looking at the diagram.
Incorporate business data, graph analysis results, and user input to drive the configuration and highlight key aspects. Use animation to blend between different layouts and help users keep their mental map with smooth incremental changes.
Layout styles demo
Countless interaction possibilities
Easily customize your app's interaction options with graphs and diagrams, enabling efficient and intuitive work customized to your specific needs.
Use keyboard, mouse, touch, and pen input to interact with the diagrams and data. Provide dynamic help, visual feedback, and a customized UI to provide the best possible user experience.
Contextual toolbar demo
Touch interaction demo
Customized, meaningful designs
Include all of the information you want to show – within the design itself.
Adjust the design dynamically to the required zoom level or data updates. Display dynamic data within visualizations that adapt based on the context. Add interactivity and reactivity to the diagrams. Configure your design to display only the essential information your users require.
Process mining demo
Enjoy automatic layouts
Make it easy for your users as they create and explore their diagrams. Incorporate automatic layouts to effortlessly generate clear and visually appealing diagrams from your data with just a touch of a button.
Automatically update your visualizations in real-time as data changes, while still maintaining a consistent design. Highlight important aspects in both the structure and the metadata of your diagrams.
Mind map demo
Select intuitive interaction options
Accept no limits. Deploy the perfect UI design that will inspire your users, no matter their technical level.
Collapsible tree demo
Connect to any data source
yFiles can handle all types of relational data, regardless of storage location or creation method.
Connect to one or more databases, graph databases, data stores, or other resources. Use any protocol available on the platform. The choice is yours!
Graph builder demo
yFiles easily connects to diverse data sources, including databases and graph databases.
Integrate yFiles easily for enhanced visuals on any interface.
Integrate yFiles in your system
yFiles will greatly improve your existing application or framework. Both technically and visually – reflecting your corporate design on the app’s look and feel.
No matter what technology you are using. Add yFiles to existing apps, dashboards, and reports, or create new stunning apps that gracefully integrate with your line of products' look and feel.
Connect to any of your data sources and systems to create reactive and engaging applications that integrate perfectly with your users' workflow.
Map integration demo
CSS styling demo
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Thank you very much for your prompt help and great support. The framework is impressive and we will definitely continue to use it.Dirk Stoermer, ATLAS.ti

Technologies

yFiles platforms & variants

yFiles is available for 5 major platforms: HTML, JavaFX, Java (Swing), WinForms and WPF.

While yFiles is very similar on every platform, there are some minor differences due to the respective technical specifications.

Thanks to similar APIs across the different technologies, it’s easy to migrate between yFiles products to cover new platforms. So there’s no need to start from scratch when technologies change (as they always do)!

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Advanced integration possibilities

Abundant integration options.

Interactive live demos

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Isometric
This demo displays graphs isometrically, adding an additional dimension to the visualization. This can be used to represent characteristics of the business data as height, or just because of the esthetics.
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Layout Styles
This demo showcases the most popular yFiles’ layout algorithms, including hierarchic, organic, orthogonal, tree, circular, balloon, and several edge routing styles.
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Metaball Groups
This demo shows how to render metaball-like background visualizations to illustrate how nodes can be associated with zero or more groups. In contrast to regular group nodes, a regular node may belong to multiple metaball groups.
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Process Mining
This Process Mining Visualization demo shows how to create an animated visualization of a process flow. The diagram expresses the various steps in a processing pipeline and how entities move through the pipeline. A heat map shows which elements in the graph are nearing their capacity limit. A custom node style for each process step shows the name of the process and the current load.
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Network Flows
Network flow algorithms apply to directed networks in which edges have certain capacities and where a flow moves from source nodes (i.e., nodes with in-degree 0) to sink nodes (i.e., nodes with out-degree 0).
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Sankey
Sankey diagrams are used to visualize flow information in which the thickness of the edges is proportional to the flow quantity. Such diagrams are usually created by the hierarchical layout algorithm (see HierarchicLayout).
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Network Monitoring
This demo shows a basic network monitoring tool. You can watch the traffic flowing through the network and even influence the network by deactivating nodes.
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Large Graph Aggregation
This demo reveals how to use the smart NodeAggregation algorithm for drill down exploration of a large graph. The NodeAggregation algorithm consolidates nodes of a graph and thus creates node clusters based on user-specified constraints.
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Edge Bundling
This demo presents how edge bundling can be applied to reduce visual cluttering in dense graphs. The edge curves are drawn using piecewise cubic bezier curves with gradient colors from dark-blue (starting from the source node) to light-blue (leading to the edge target node).
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BPMN
An editor for Business Process Diagrams (BPMN). You can interactively modify the diagram and automatically arrange it with the specialized BPMN layout algorithm.
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Organization Chart
This demo reveals how to create an interactive organization chart from JSON data.
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Fraud Detection
This demo displays how yFiles for HTML can be used to detect fraud cases in time-dependent data. Fraud affects companies worldwide causing economic loss and liability issues. Fraud detection relies on the analysis of a huge amount of data-sets and thus, visualizations are very useful to quickly detect fraud schemes.
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Interactive Map
This demo illustrates how to integrate a GraphComponent with Leaflet. The GraphComponent is included in a custom Leaflet Layer. The nodes placement uses geo-coordinates to attain the correct locations on the map.
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UML
The UML Editor demo showcases a custom UML node style that renders an UML data set. Additional control elements are provided to conveniently add/remove entries and to create different type of UML edges as well as toggling the node's 'interface' or 'abstract' state.
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Decision Tree
This demo shows how to create an interactive decision tree from a graph.
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Tag Cloud
This demo shows how to create a Tag Cloud visualization.
Isometric
Layout Styles
Metaball Groups
Process Mining
Network Flows
Sankey
Network Monitoring
Large Graph Aggregation
Edge Bundling
BPMN
Organization Chart
Fraud Detection
Interactive Map
UML
Decision Tree
Tag Cloud
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