How to place nodes of the same type in the same location?

Question

Hi!

I currenty want to create a custom layout for my graph. The layout is rather simple. I want that all the nodes of type "A" are displayed on the left side and all the node of type "B" on the right side. There should be a small gap between the two types of nodes and the two graph groups should be on the same "level".

My current idea is to use the  "NODE_ID_DPKEY "-DataProvider Key to assign each node to a specific type and then move one type of group  with the "moveby"-Method to the right location. 

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks for you help!

Answer 1

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