Last week, we looked at how to construct a visual representation of a hierarchy stored as a parent-child table. The obvious next step is to accumulate values stored on those nodes using this hierarchy.
Tag: ragged dimension
An indented representation of a parent-child hierarchy
When you’re designing reports, they can often be based on hiearchies represented by “nodes” in a parent-child setup. To the end-user, the parent-child representation doesn’t provide very much readability, so you need to output this information in a human-readable form, for instance in a table where the names/titles are indented.