channels

A channel is an array of elements that are consecutively related (based on a fiducial). In the Oasis montaj database, a channel is displayed in the spreadsheet window as a vertical column of cells and contains a specific type of data.

The first element of a channel has an assigned start fiducial, and subsequent elements are separated by a fiducial increment. A channel also has a name and a display format. Channel names must start with a letter or an underscore character ‘_’, and may not contain any spaces.

Once a channel is defined, it exists on all lines of a database. However, it may or may not contain data (elements). A channel may contain any number of elements, all of which are of the same data type.