fwiw, in genealogy, the single point a child points back to is a family entity, not a parent. A family has up to 2 related items, mother and father.
The model will still work. On 9/27/06, Brian Rinaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't believe you could use Barney's component to manage this. It uses a > method that Celko discusses in his book called the Nested Set model for > maintaining heirarchies. In this case each item/node has a left and right > position, and any node whose left and right positions are within that range > is considered a child. So, for example, you would have Parent (lpos 1, rpos > 4) and Child (lpos 2, rpos 3). While this has many advantages for > maintaining trees of heirarchies, it won't apply here IMO. You can already > see how this would be problematic for a family tree - each item/node has a > single direct parent. I do recommend Barney's component for generally > managing hierarchies in this method, and if anyone is interested, I ported > it to MS SQL (I think his version is MySQL only) and wrote a flash form for > managing "categories" within trees - it is a year old, so some stuff may be > worth updating (i.e. some flash form stuff changed in the interim), but you > can find the link here - > http://www.remotesynthesis.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/11/4/Managing-Tree-Using-TreeManagercfc-and-Flash-Forms > > -- > - Brian Rinaldi > blog - http://www.remotesynthesis.com/blog > CF Open Source List - http://www.remotesynthesis.com/cfopensourcelist > Boston CFUG - http://www.bostoncfug.org > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254418 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
