Child elements belonging to the same list

HideakiAnnaka

 

I'm talking about a list with no parent hierarchy other than the top level, why is it that each item in this list can have an item belonging to the same list as a child element?

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I understand that this cannot be completely forbidden for compatibility reasons.

However, I think that there should be an option to prohibit this.

I don't want to be able to accidentally add a child element in the classic dashboard or New UX that belongs to the same list, even if I don't want to.

For example, if I want to add an item called "Middle-East and Africa" to the top list of the "Regions" hierarchy, I would like to restrict it to being added only to the bottom of "All Regions", not to the bottom of "Americas" or "Europe".

If I were to add "Canada" to the bottom layer of "Americas", I would create a list called "Country" and add it to this list.

 

https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Idea-Exchange/Option-to-prohibit-adding-child-elements-belonging-to-the-same/idi-p/121642

 

 

HideakiAnnaka

I remember that there used to be a bug where, when you created a form that didn't allow you to specify a parent, the title of the selected row was considered to be the specified parent.
However, I am currently unable to reproduce such a bug, so it may be that my previous testing methods or memory is faulty.
I have found that the solution is to not allow the parent to be specified when creating the form.

 

  

HideakiAnnaka

Thanks to you I have learnt that there are balanced and unbalanced hierarchies and that there is a parent-child hierarchy with a single list and a composite hierarchy with several individual lists.