Programmatically creating Hierarchy Viewer

Question

Hi All,
Please advise on creating heriarchy viewer programmatically instead of the creating a databound based viewer.
Best Regards,
Ankit Gupta

Answer 1

Hi Shay,
Many thanks for the link.
The underlying database table has the following columns -
ID, Name, Type, Parent Name, Parent Type.....with primary key on ID.
I tried creating a VO from this table and a View link mapping Name & Parent Name.
Using this structure, I created a hierarchy viewer on the page.
However, during runtime, all the nodes were show individually instead as a hierarchy.
Based on this scenario, I have some queries to ask -
1) Is it mandatory to have "Name" column as primary key , with Parent Name as a self referencing foreign key mapping back to Name.
2) If "Name" cannot be makred as a Primary key, can the hierarchy viewer model can still be achieved using view link or should i opt the programmatic way to create each node.
Best Regards,
Ankit Gupta