That is true Brian. I used it for single entity points. One direct relationship to the next.
Parent relationships that has related properties like a mother and a father would have to be executed in paralell to possibly create a paternal tree and a maternal tree with a couple relationship identifier so that they could be possibly merged back together. The only issue here is that families are typically never linear as you can have multiple relationships through divorce/seperation or the death of a spouse and still have children aka "nodes." It would be interesting to find a clean map pathing to multiple entities. I will have to take a look at your link. Teddy 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:254422 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
