Finding items linked to a selection
You can extend the current selection of items on a chart to include entities that are linked to the selection, directly or indirectly, and, optionally, the links between them. You can set rules about which items are selected.
About this task
Options are available on the Select tab of the Analyst's Notebook ribbon, in the Extend Selection group. Use these options to extend your selection in a number of ways. Alternatively, you can use the Find Linked Items feature to further extend your selection.
Before you find linked items, you must select one or more items on the chart as a starting point for the search. Typically, you select one or more entities as the starting point. However, you can select links. When you select a link, Analyst's Notebook automatically selects the entity at one or both ends of the selected link, depending on other settings (for example, link directions). It then searches for linked items.
- Search depth
- Link direction
- Entities or links, with attribute values that match a condition that you specify
- Time flow (either forward or backward in time)
- The time gap between successive items on the path