yFiles product details (2024)

yFiles

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

Release Notes

yFiles for HTML (2.6.0.3)

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

Diagramming that fits your needs

yFiles is the most advanced and complete diagramming solution on the market. Our powerful and flexible API offers a wide array of functions - right out of the box. Simply choose the ones that match your needs best.

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 implementations with several hundred different settings let you fine-tune the results. With the right algorithm and configuration, you can add relevant information to visualizations, helping users find answers to their questions, simply by looking at the diagrams.
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 keeping their mental map with smooth incremental changes.

Layout styles demo

Countless interaction possibilities

You decide what your app can do. Easily customize the interaction with graphs and diagrams, for efficient, intuitive work on your use case.
Use keyboard, mouse, touch, and pen input to interact with the diagrams and data. Provide dynamic help, visual feedback, and tailored interactions 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 zoom level or data updates. Show dynamic data as part of the visualization and depending on the context. Add interactivity and reactivity to the diagrams. Configure your design to show just the amount of information your users require.

Process mining demo

Enjoy automatic layouts

Assist your users as they create and explore their diagrams. Use automatic layouts to build clear and beautiful diagrams from your data at the touch of a button.
Automatically update your visualizations when data changes, while maintaining a consistent design. Highlight important aspects in both the structure and the meta data of your diagrams.

Mindmap demo

Create intuitive interaction

Accept no limits. Implement the perfect interaction design that will make your users productive, no matter whether these are casual or power users.

Collapsible tree demo

Connect all types of data sources

yFiles can handle all types of relational data, no matter where you store it or how you create it.
Connect to one or more databases, graph databases, data stores, or other resources. You’re free to use every protocol available on the platform. The choice is yours!

Graph builder demo

Integrate yFiles in your system

yFiles will perfectly enhance your existing application or framework. Technically as well as visually – by reflecting your corporate design or 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 seamlessly 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' work flow.

Map integration demo
CSS styling demo

All features in detail

Interactive
yFiles Playground

Your interactive space to play with yFiles the superior diagramming library. Experiment freely with a variety of examples, allowing you to experience yFiles and its potential firsthand.

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yFiles Playground

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

yFiles React Components

Ready to use React components for specific use cases like organization charts or supply chains.

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yFiles React Components

Add on:
VSDX Export

Due to the high demand, we offer an additional add on that allows you to export all graphs also in Visio format VSDX.

This add on is only available for yFiles for HTML.

VSDX Export

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 (and they will)!

Advanced integration possibilities

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 beautiful looks.

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Layout Styles

This demo showcases the most used layout algorithms of yFiles, 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 show 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 shows 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 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 for visualizing flow information in which the thickness of the edges is proportional to the flow quantity. Such diagrams can be produced by means of the hierarchic 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 shows how to use the smart NodeAggregation algorithm for drill down exploration of a large graph. The NodeAggregation algorithms consolidates nodes of a graph and thus creates cluster of nodes based on user-specified constraints.

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Edge Bundling

This demo shows how edge bundling can be applied for reducing visual cluttering in dense graphs. The edge curves are drawn using piecewise cubic bezier curves with gradient colors from dark-blue (that starts from the source node) to light-blue (that leads to the target node of the edge).

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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 shows how to create an interactive organization chart from JSON data.

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Fraud Detection

This demo shows how yFiles for HTML can be used for detecting fraud cases in time-dependent data. Fraud affects many companies worldwide causing economic loss and liability issues. Fraud detection relies on the analysis of a huge amount of data-sets and thus, visualizations can be valuable for the quick detection of fraud schemes.

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Interactive Map

This demo shows how to integrate a GraphComponent with Leaflet. The GraphComponent is included in a custom Leaflet Layer. The placement of the nodes uses geo-coordinates to get 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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Source
code

Inspect the sources of more than two hundred source code applications and tutorial steps. Try out the apps online and browse the fully commented and documented sources in our GitHub repositories.

Demos

Play with hundreds of demos, online, to learn more about the features of yFiles. Find demos show-casing complete use-case, as well as technology demos focusing on specific features, integrations, and customization options.

API docs

Browse and read the complete documentation for the yFiles API. Find out more about the all the types, classes, interfaces, defaults, and configuration options. Find hundreds of source code examples and illustrations showing best-practices, common-idioms, and customization options.

Developer'sGuide

Find a detailed description of the features available in yFiles in our extensive Developer's Guide. Get everything from a high-level introduction to detailed customization options on the concepts, data structures, layout- and graph analysis algorithms.

Videos

Get a wide selection of videos. Watch how-to clips to get started in no time. Learn from previously recorded webinars. We show you how to setup your IDEs to get productive in no time, how learn from and leverage the existing source code samples, and how to integrate the diagramming component into your existing apps and frameworks, smoothly.

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Services

As the diagramming experts, yWorks offers a comprehensive range of services.
From software support to training courses – you get everything you need to work successfully with data structures, complex algorithms, and advanced data visualization.

We provide webinars, online seminars, coaching sessions, support, workshops, consulting services, project reviews, code reviews, coding, and more.

Our high-quality e-mail support is included in the optional support & maintenance subscription.
You get assistance directly from our core developers, from start to successful finish.

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Licenses & pricing

We offer a variety of licenses to match your precise needs.

All yFiles licenses are perpetual, with zero royalty fees. You can add an optional annual subscription for maintenance and support.

The right yFiles license is just a few clicks away. If your requirements are not covered, let us know – we also offer individual, customizable licenses.