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user1885868
user1885868

Reputation: 1093

Neo4j browser doesn't visualize relationships

I am new at Neo4j and I've been trying the queries in the official Neo4j training course (with their "Movies" dummy database example).

I have tried to run this query :

MATCH (actor)-[:ACTED_IN]->(movie)<-[:DIRECTED]-(director)
RETURN actor.name, movie.title, director.name;

It did work fine in the query window they have in their tutorial website.

Capture from the query window in the tutorial website

But when I tried to run it in my own Neo4j browser, it only the table view as in the following picture:

Capture of my returned Table View

While the graph view didn't show anything except for a Displaying 0 nodes, 0 relationships message.

What did I do wrong? And How can I fix it?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1007

Answers (2)

JohnMark13
JohnMark13

Reputation: 3739

In your query you are only returning rows of textual data, rather than the nodes to which they relate. To see the nodes in the graph view, you need to return the nodes and relationships from your query, so your query should be:

MATCH (actor)-[:ACTED_IN]->(movie)<-[:DIRECTED]-(director)
RETURN actor, movie, director

Upvotes: 4

František Hartman
František Hartman

Reputation: 15076

The key thing is your return clause

RETURN actor.name, movie.title, director.name;

You return only values of these properties.

By changing this to 

RETURN actor, movie, director;

you will return whole nodes and neo4j browser will also load relationships between these nodes.

Upvotes: 1

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