Remove intermediate node with edges preserving

Question

N1--->N2--->N3

I would like to obtain

N1--->N3

Is it possible with multiple selection?

Comments

There is a feature request for the opposite transformation, too: http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/123/

Answer 1

No, currently, there is no way to convert from the first graph to the second.

Comments

I would really like this too.

I've been importing some very large amounts of data into yEd by Excel and sometimes it causes memory errors/crashes due to the amount of data.

If this feature was available then I could split the import and then manually 'stitch' the two parts together then delete the duplicate/joining nodes.

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I'm not sure whether this is really what you need. A 'merge nodes' feature would be more appropriate. It would merge nodes with the same label, for example convert a unconnected graph with 4 nodes N1->N2  N2->N3 into N1->N2->N3.

Besides, have you seen the question about increasing the memory available to yEd: http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/52/ ?

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Yes a merge feature would be much more suitable for me :-), is there an open feature request for this?

Thanks for the info. regarding memory too.

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No, none that I'm aware of.

Answer 2

No progress at all?

Comments

Unfortunately, no. yEd is not a permanent effort, rather an on-off project. And the list of feature requests is large. So, we cannot implement all requests. (That does not mean we will never do this specific feature.)

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Thank you for reply. Could you recommend other tool that can be used for this?

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No, I am not familiar with the feature sets of other graph editor applications.