diff --git a/src/main/java/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/utils/JavaConnector.java b/src/main/java/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/utils/JavaConnector.java
index c63350e333d4ba6ebde8075dd16de97eaa4a950f..b70723568c6e8b1b906ddf072357db2e2d4bc686 100644
--- a/src/main/java/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/utils/JavaConnector.java
+++ b/src/main/java/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/utils/JavaConnector.java
@@ -113,4 +113,12 @@ public class JavaConnector {
             MainApp.getDataControler().selectNode(itiFile);
         }
     }
+
+    public void highlightStep(String node) {
+        JSONObject oStep = new JSONObject(node);
+        StepFile s = listStep.get(oStep.getInt("id"));
+        if(s != null) {
+            MainApp.getDataControler().highlightStep(s, itiFile);
+        }
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/view/dataView/DataOverviewController.java b/src/main/java/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/view/dataView/DataOverviewController.java
index 1b8e4b67d4ecd19fc2ae810a5bb68c35731f82d5..bb4aa213be9dd6213af471891b32957645e1fa64 100644
--- a/src/main/java/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/view/dataView/DataOverviewController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/view/dataView/DataOverviewController.java
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ import fr.inrae.po2engine.model.dataModel.*;
 import fr.inrae.po2engine.utils.DataTools;
 import fr.inrae.po2engine.utils.Report;
 import fr.inrae.po2engine.utils.Tools;
+import javafx.animation.KeyFrame;
+import javafx.animation.Timeline;
 import javafx.application.Platform;
 import javafx.beans.property.BooleanProperty;
 import javafx.beans.property.SimpleBooleanProperty;
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
 import javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane;
 import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
 import javafx.stage.Modality;
+import javafx.util.Duration;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.MutablePair;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -780,4 +783,38 @@ public class DataOverviewController {
 //        listDataNode.remove(gf);
     }
 
+    public void highlightStep(StepFile step, ItineraryFile itineraryFile) {
+        DataNode node = getDataNode(step, itineraryFile);
+        if(node != null) {
+           highlightNode(node);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void highlightNode(DataNode node) {
+        if(node != null) {
+            TreeItem<DataNode> treeItem = searchNode(rootItem, node);
+            if(treeItem != null) {
+                openTreeItem(treeItem);
+                Platform.runLater(() -> {
+                    Timeline timeline = new Timeline(
+                            new KeyFrame(Duration.seconds(0.2), evt -> {
+                                treeItem.getGraphic().getParent().setVisible(false);
+                            }),
+                            new KeyFrame(Duration.seconds( 0.4), evt -> {
+                                treeItem.getGraphic().getParent().setVisible(true);
+                            }));
+                    timeline.setCycleCount(10);
+                    timeline.play();
+                });
+
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void openTreeItem(TreeItem item) {
+        if(item != null) {
+            openTreeItem(item.getParent());
+            item.setExpanded(true);
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/graph/graph-creator.js b/src/main/resources/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/graph/graph-creator.js
index 345038fe2f6aadd14b9fb9e012b08fa5c75a0cc1..af469b86662e1d01ee279702136d7c08d66186df 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/graph/graph-creator.js
+++ b/src/main/resources/fr/inra/po2vocabmanager/graph/graph-creator.js
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@
       thisGraph.removeSelectFromNode();
     }
     thisGraph.state.selectedNode = nodeData;
+    thisGraph.javaFXHighLightNode(nodeData);
   };
 
   GraphCreator.prototype.removeSelectFromNode = function() {
@@ -848,6 +849,10 @@ GraphCreator.prototype.addEdgeNoUpdate = function(nodeSrc, nodeTgt) {
     javaConnector.delNode(JSON.stringify(node));
   }
 
+  GraphCreator.prototype.javaFXHighLightNode = function(node) {
+    javaConnector.highlightStep(JSON.stringify(node));
+  }
+
   /** MAIN SVG **/
   var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
     .attr("width", width)