Are you asking for help on the structure of the table that will hold this information? A fairly popular method is to have a parent id field in your table, indicating the parent id of the current document. At the very minimum, your table will contain a document id, the parent document id, a title and the content. It would be fairly easy to write a recursive function that can return all descendants of a particular document.
In addition to this, you could add a RootID field, representing the top level document for a particular child. This would allow you to quickly get a list of all descendants of a root, with a single select statement (as opposed to having to call the recursive function I mentioned above).
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Sent by Ali Koumaiha on 02/19/2006 07:37:04 PM:
I am currently using Foxweb and i have developed an internal portal/ordering system for my company. I am currently stuck on a design issue for our File-Library section.
Basically, Our corporate staff will be placing files and links and news articles on the portal section and it is appearing to me that it will look like a tree in a sense.
I have spent a week so far to come up with a nice design to handle this. I am stuck. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I have created a Tree table similar to the table of the Treeview of FoxPro, but i haven't been successful.
This is what i would like to have:
- Root 1
- Child 1.1
- Child 1.2
----- Child 1.2.1
- Root 2
- Root 3
- Child 3.1
Etc. I am thinking, when the script loads the page, i only display the parents (root 0) Root 1,2 & 3. Then, depending on which link (fwx will track the root by something like this DisplayRoot.fwx?NodeID="<%=root%>".
But, the expand function is killing me. Any thoughts? Has anyone coded a catalog/tree type similar to my concept and were succesful?
Please help.
Thanks