Label behavior
Behavior options determine how labels are handled when links are created or items are merged. Set the behavior for your needs within your standard template.
Specifying label merge and paste rules
Entities are merged when:
- An entity is pasted into a chart that contains an entity with a matching identity
- You use the Merge Entities command
Links are merged when:
- You use the Merge Multiple Links command
- Their connection style is changed, resulting in fewer links on the connection
- You merge entities that are linked to the same entity. For example, if you merge two telephones that are linked to the same person, the links are merged.
When two or more items are merged into a single item, you can specify what happens to the labels of an item:
| Merge | Labels are merged if the following conditions are true:
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| Append | One label is appended to the other. The label of the item that is pasted, or the last item that is selected is appended to the end of the original label. |
| Discard | The label of the item that is pasted or the last item that is selected is discarded. The label of the original chart item is retained. |
Summing numeric links
When the labels on your links are numeric or a number is contained within them, select Sum Numeric Links to add the numbers together when links are merged.
Labels can have numbers that are embedded within them, that is, only part of the label is a number. Analyst's Notebook can recognize that a label contains an embedded number.
To see the numeric value that Analyst's Notebook interprets from the link label, you can view the link's Label Value analysis attribute. This attribute, contains the numeric value of the link, as extracted from the label:
The rest of the label, that is to the left and right of the numerical part, is still merged.
Creating new links with a blank label
Select the Create Links with Blank Labels check box to create new links on your chart without a label.