Additional layers

Additional attributes of an element are not output into the rendered diagram.

With the command line option -l or --layers you can enable the output of those additional attributes. By using this feature different views on the GSN can be generated.

Example

G1:
  text: This is a Goal
  supportedBy: [S1]
  inContextOf: [C1]
  layer1: This is additional information for G1.

S1:
  text: This is a Strategy
  layer1: This is additional information for S1.

C1: 
  text: This is a Context
  layer1: This is additional information for C1.

In this example, a call to gsn2x -l layer1 will show the additional information to each element prefixed with LAYER1: .

Of course, using text, inContextOf, supportedBy, url, undeveloped, horizontalRank, rankIncrement, acp, defeated, challenges or classes are not sensible parameters to pass for the -l option.

Please note that using module and passing it as a layer option will also not work.

It is intentional that information is only added for a view, but not hidden to ensure consistency of the GSN in all variants.

Only additional associative arrays with a string key can be used as additional layers.