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A map is a drawn view of the captured data. Under the Maps menu entry you open three: Topology, IP Networks and IP Segments. What each one shows is in The Three Maps. Opening, moving, selecting and exporting work the same in all three.
Maps is an area of its own in the main navigation, not a document list. For documents, see Documents Fundamentals.

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A map as a tab of its own

A map opens as a tab of its own. Switching to another tab only hides the map you left; it is not torn down.
Zoom level, viewport, filter, arrangement and selection therefore survive a tab switch. Only closing the tab or leaving the area resets a map; it is rebuilt the next time you open it.
These keyboard shortcuts apply in every map: F, + and - have no effect while you type in an input field. Ctrl+F always works. A small Overview in the bottom right shows the whole picture, with its own buttons for zooming in, zooming out and fitting. A map can also show a Legend of the symbols, colors and lines it uses.

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The sidebar

What the sidebar shows for a node depends on the map (see The Three Maps); the frame is the same:
  • A back arrow appears when you jumped here from another entry.
  • Field values can be copied individually.

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Exporting

Behind Export lie four formats — VSDX, PDF, SVG and PNG. VSDX opens in Visio and carries the device data along as editable fields; PDF, SVG and PNG are plain images.
Export forces the light color scheme. If you work in the dark color scheme, the exported file looks different from the map on your screen. The fonts used are embedded in the file so that the labels stay in place on another machine too.

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Empty map versus failed load

An empty map and a failed load use the same surface but mean different things: An empty map carries no Retry button — loading did work. Start Scan takes you to creating a scan job — that is where the missing data comes from, see Scanning Fundamentals. What Topology, IP Networks and IP Segments each show, and which controls their toolbar carries, is in The Three Maps. The data for the maps is produced by scanning, see Scanning Fundamentals.