iBridge allows you to find out whether two entities on your chart are linked,
directly or indirectly, within your database, that is you can find out if there is a path in
your database between two charted entities. A Find Path operation may reveal more entities
and links that exist in the database, and add them automatically to the chart. It is similar
to the Analyst's Notebook Find Path operation, although the items in the path must be in the
database but do not have to already be on the chart.
To find a path between two charted entities:
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If you want to take account of link direction for the Find Path operation, you
must first do one of the following:
- In the Selection page of the Data Sources Task Pane, click the arrow to
the right of Find Path and turn on Follow
Direction.
- In the Charting Settings turn on Follow
Direction.
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Select the two entities between which you wish to find a path by clicking on
the first entity and then holding down the Ctrl key while
you click on the second entity. If Follow direction is
turned on in the Chart
Settings, or the Selection page of the Data Sources Task Pane, the
order in which you select these entities is important. Select the source entity
first and then the destination entity.
Note: You can only use Find Path if
you have exactly two entities selected. It does not matter whether or not
any links are selected.
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Position your pointer over one of the selected entities, right-click and select
Find Path.
The shortest paths between the original two entities are
selected on your chart. Any entities and links in the paths which were not previously on
your chart are added to your chart and selected.If there were any links selected when
the Find Path operation was initiated, only the links which are part of the
resultant paths remain selected.
More than one path may be selected. This
happens if there is more than one path of the same length and they are shorter than
any other paths.
Note: If Find Path
is taking too long, you can abort it by pressing the Esc key.