Basic Edge Creation Question

OK at the risk of being a real noob… I am missing something…

I come from using Neo4J where creating new objects is pretty straightforward… to Tigergraph where it does not seem to be so.

All of the documentation that I read seems to have this model of distinct Create Schema and Loading Data processes, with no interaction between the two.

I’m sure I am missing something… but something as simple as creating a new Edge based on a query result seems to be short on explanations. I know that Neo4J has been around a lot longer so there are a lot more examples… but even something as basic as “creating a linked list of nodes” doesn’t return anything useful in GSQL… but there are dozens of examples about how to do this in Neo4J… what am I missing here?

I really like the way GSQL looks and feels more like “code” and the UI is pretty awesome… but this fundamental disconnect is frustrating me.

Can someone point me to something or explain what I am missing? I suspect that it is something to do with using the Query writer in the UI vs GSQL interactive/file based approaches too… but I am unsure of that.

Thanks for some noob guidance!

Frank

Hi Frank,

Thanks for reaching out! I’m TigerGraph’s Technology Evangelist. These are great questions. Here are some communities:

Community Chat: https://discord.gg/F2c9b9v
Community Forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/tigergraph/

I’ll reach out to you via LinkedIn!

please check the insert statement here

https://en-doc.graphtiger.com/dev/gsql-ref/querying/data-modification-statements