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card with its home context. It points to the same resource. Use **Go to** to
open the home context.

## How do connections span the architecture?

In the [Playground](https://rootform.dev/playground/?representation=constellation),
open the view name at the top left to choose **Architecture** or
**Constellation**. Architecture opens one context and its contents at a time.
Constellation puts all canvas objects on one map, so you can follow connections
across contexts without opening each one. Its lines come from architectural
relations, placements, and contributions recorded in the Form.

The same menu chooses which kinds of links and providers are shown, and
groups the map by scope, provider, or kind. Select an object to read its
Inspector and **Explain**, then choose **Local graph** or press `l` to focus
on its connections. Open the object's name at the top left to choose a depth
of one to four links; each ring groups objects by their distance in links.
**Back** and **Forward** revisit local centres. **Whole constellation**
returns to the full map.

Press `g` to switch between the two views. Your selection, Inspector,
comparison side, and change filters stay with you.

## What does this plan change?

The selector under the navigation controls names the current view and the
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