Item type definitions

Entity types and link types categorize the information on your chart and are part of a chart's properties. If the existing item types are not suitable for your data, you can add or edit entity types and link types.

Entity type definitions

Entity types have characteristics that define the type, including icon, name, line and shade color, and semantic type. When you are defining an entity type or editing an existing type, you can further customize the following characteristics:
  • In addition to the icons available in Analyst's Notebook, you can load your own custom icons for specialized entity types.
  • If there is no suitable semantic type in the type library, then to provide an accurate classification of your data you can derive a custom semantic type from an existing semantic type.

You can also choose which user palettes contain the newly defined entity type.

Link type definitions

Link types have characteristics that define the type, including name, line color, and semantic type. As part of a link type definition, if there is no suitable semantic type in the type library, then to provide an accurate classification of your data you can derive a custom semantic type from an existing semantic type.

You can also choose which user palettes contain the newly defined link type.