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1. A method for facilitating preservation of context information during navigation of a visualization in a computing environment, the computing environment including one or more computing devices in communication with a software application, wherein the software application executes software, wherein the software provides displayable information accessible to the one or more computing devices, a computing device of the one or more computing devices executing the steps of the method, the method comprising:
representing hierarchical data via a visualization, wherein the visualization includes one or more hierarchically related nodes, wherein the one or more hierarchically related nodes are associated with one or more respective computing objects, and wherein the visualization includes a parent node surrounded by one or more child nodes, wherein the one or more child nodes are confined to a path that at least partially circumscribes the parent node, and wherein the parent node is a central node of the visualization; providing a first user option to navigate to a child node selected from among the one or more child nodes; and updating the displayed visualization in response to user selection of the first user option, resulting in an updated visualization, wherein the updated visualization includes the parent node positioned at a periphery of the visualization, and wherein the selected child node positioned as a new central node of the updated visualization. |
