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DavidDeGraaff
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7 years ago

I don't see a way to create a hierarchy from a table that just shows employee and manager.

Is there a way to handle the recursion for any number of levels, so I could have one table that has:  employee   manager bill              mary mary           jane jane            bob and fro...
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QuickBaseCoachD
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7 years ago
A table can be relation to itself. So 1 Manager May have many employees. Except that the managers are actually Employees.

So then the actual relationship is that 1 Employee have many Employees. The field that the system will create called [Related Employee] should be renamed to [Manager] and then it should make sense.

As for Jane seeing Bill, who is two levels down from her, I think that is possible to do.

But having said that, I�m not sure it�s intuative for users when set up that way. There is an arguement for setting it up more traditionally, where each employee has 3 slots called Manager Level 1, Manager Level 2, Manager Level 3.
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DavidDeGraaff
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago
Thanks for the clue.  I'll see how far I can get.  Note that the intuitive way you're suggesting doesn't work well with more people.  For example, if I move a group to a new manager, it's easy to just update all their managers, but not easy to update everyone all the way up the chain from their new manager.  And when a middle manager changes managers, you need to find them all over the place and update their reporting chain.  It doesn't scale.