Searching for paths between two items
You can find out whether two items on your chart are connected, however indirectly, by searching for a path between them. You can set criteria for which items are allowed on the path.
About this task
A path is a specific route between two items on a chart and it includes both entities and links. Most commonly, a path is between two entities, but it can be between two links or an entity and a link. To find a path, you must select exactly two items on a chart. The order in which you select the items defines the direction in which Analyst's Notebook searches for the path. This order can be significant if you choose to follow link directions for example, or look for events that happened in chronological order.
By default, Analyst's Notebook finds the path between two items that has
the fewest number of links. When two shortest paths are found, they are both selected. You can
specify that the path found must also take account of:
- 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