I would definitely have started this paragraph with One more thing; but there is more than one. Here are a few points I would have liked to know when I started using Cypher.
When a syntax error arises, as it happens to the best of us, sometimes the error message can be improved:
- Check whether all nodes are closed; it's easy to miss a closing parenthesis just after a closing curly bracket
- The semicolon before the name of a relation is mandatory (so far, I'm lobbying against this)
Check what you return, because the graph view in the browser will show you a view of your results. This is why you get relations when you only return a few nodes. The neighbors (nodes connected) are displayed up to the maximum count of displayable items, which is 300 by default. Keep this in mind. Neighbors give the context, but the truth is in the Rows and Text tabs.
To see and change the default settings for the browser, click on the Settings icon (a gear) at the bottom left of the screen...