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Connection Posts
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Connection Posts let paths cross workspace boundaries so you can create
diagrams that span several workspaces. G2 passes the data from an output
connection post to all input connection posts with the same name. NeurOn-Line
has six types of Connection Posts: Data Path Connection Posts, Inference Path
Connection Posts, Control Path Connection Posts, Vector Path Connection Posts,
Data Pair Path Connection Posts, and Action Link Connection Posts. They are
identical except for the type of data they handle.
A Connection Post must have a name to work. An output connection post and its
corresponding input connection posts must have the same name to pass data
properly. To name the connection post, configure the connection post.
The Connection Posts on the Connections palette can function as input or output.
To change one to an input post, just delete the input stub by dragging it onto the
post, and vice versa for an output post.
Connection Posts let you break up a complex diagram and put related parts of the
diagram on different workspaces. You can also use input and output connection
posts on the same workspace to reduce the number of crossed paths.
Note: Do not modify the Superior-connection attribute of a connection post.
Highlighting
If your diagram is large and contains many Connection Posts, you may want to
see the output Connection Post that sends data to another post, or you may want
to find all the input posts that receive data from another post. To highlight all
connection posts with the same name, choose highlight from a Connection Post's
menu. NOL brings to the front all workspaces that contain a connection post with
that name, colors the post the block highlight color (pink, by default), and places
an arrow beside it.
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To change the post's color back and remove the arrow, choose do not highlight
from the post menu for any of the highlighted posts.
Configuring
This is the configuration panel for a Data Path Connection Post:
Examples
The following figure shows the equation:
The Connection Posts let you use the value from Entry Point A in two different
places, without crossing paths.
The example below uses action link Connect Posts to simplify a diagram in which
a Backpropagation is trained and tested with a Data Set:
See Also
For more information on how to use this block, see the sections below.
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