Flex + Topology View

Question

Currently I'm working on creating a view of displaying a entire school database in the form of a graphical view.

1. School;
2. Classes;
3. Teachers; and
4. Students

I display an Image for each of the above mentioned ones. I need a plugin/tool (freeware) to use to create the links between them.

My default view would be a School Image, either on click of Image / Zoom-In (Zoom-out) I want to display Classes.

When I select a click by clicking it or mouse over a particular class and zoom-in, I want to display the teachers and students.

Could some-one suggest me a tool that would help me do the same.

P.S. I've tried SpringGraph, but it lacks on a lot of features.

Answer 1

Check the "tour de flex" http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/

It's a big demo of what you can do with flex. Check the Data Visualisation part, it's contains some very nice exemple

But i doubs that you will find exactly what your are looking for, why not just code it.

• A image for the scool.
• a list of image for classes.
• a list of teacher and student images for each classes.
• OnClick + transition event

No ?

Answer 2

I would check out Flare. Check out the demo. I think you will be most interested in the Layouts section.

Answer 3

Another option would be the RaVis portion of the BirdEye project. The graphs it generates are pretty customizable (i.e. controlling the image used for each node), as seen in this demo. The default interactivity (double-click to navigate, information on mouse-over) is solid as well.