Toolbar

The toolbar provides some shortcut buttons for performing the most frequently accessed menu commands.

There are a number of buttons available:

    Open File - this is the same as File | Open on the OptiPath main menu. See Files for more detail.

    Save File - this is the same as File | Save on the OptiPath main menu. See Files for more detail.

    Use Assemblages - this is the same as Artifacts | Don't Use Assemblages on the OptiPath main menu. This button is a toggle - when pressed it changes to the Don't Use Assemblages button . See Assemblages for more detail on what it means to use assemblages.

    Don't Use Assemblages - this is the same as Artifacts | Don't Use Assemblages on the OptiPath main menu. This button is a toggle - when pressed it changes to the Use Assemblages button . See Assemblages and Artifacts for more detail on what it means not to use assemblages.

    Seriate - this is the same as Seriate | Seriate on the OptiPath main menu. This button initiates the calculation of a new seriation. See Seriate for more detail.

    Reverse Seriation - this is the same as the Results | Reverse Order and Seriate | Reverse Order commands on the OptiPath main menu. This will reverse the order of the current seriation, as seen in the Results table. Seriation is an ordering technique, not a dating technique. Optimal Path seriation is able to assign relative dates to the items being seriated; however, this depends upon the dates you enter as the Earliest and Latest dates for the seriation. Even then, without Earliest and Latest dates for each artifact (assemblage), OptiPath is not able to orient the direction of the relative dating - i.e. it does not know which end is earliest and which is latest. The Reverse command allows you to reverse the order of the current seriation.