hierarchy

How could I display a hierarchical org chart with directors, managers, and staff, using webforms and c#?

Assume I have an XML doc with employees and who reports to them. Something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <employees> <employee> <id>1</id> <name>Ashley King</name> <title>Director</title> <directReports> <employee> <id>2</id> <name>Jim Warden</name> <title>Manager</tit...

How to tag and categorize Life, the Universe, and Everything?

Jokes aside, I am trying to build a tag hierarchy for a library of icons that could contain potentially anything. The problem is how to make clear and simple hierarchy of (most) objects? I am not trying to make super specific categories, just to help users with searching (if I can narrow down 10k icons into categories of 100s that should...

Bone behaves differently in 3D Studio Max to DirectX or something else?

I have a rigged (biped) and animated model in 3D Studio Max which I've exported as a .x file. When I use it the animations run fine, however I've been trying to get the model itself to lean and turn from the hip but I'm having difficulty in finding where in the bone hierarchy I should apply the rotation matrices. In 3D Studio Max there...

Data modeling of interdependent hierarchies

I'm trying to make a sales report based on the following: DColor IdColor ColorPalette ColorName 21 Vibrant Blue 22 Nature Brown 23 Vibrant Red 24 Nature Black 25 Vibrant Yellow ... ... ... DFurniture IdFurniture FurnitureType FurnitureName 43 ...

Algorithm for sorting a nested/adjecency model in Ruby

I've been trying to find a good way of doing this, either on the client side in Javascript or at the last minute within the server. This is a Rails application but it is a pretty generic question. I have a model that is hierarchical, and is currently stored in a nested set model. The model then has: parent_id, lft, and rgt I would lik...

Blending animations in DirectX - is this technically possible?

I have an animated mesh in the .x format I've loaded with D3DXLoadMeshHierarchyFromX and have an animation controller for it. The mesh has two animations, one for walking and one for throwing where the walk animation. Is it at all possible to blend the two animations in such a way that both animations can run together with the walk taki...

hierarchical regex expression

Is it possible/practical to build a single regular expression that matches hierarchical data? For example: <h1>Action</h1> <h2>Title1</h2><div>data1</div> <h2>Title2</h2><div>data2</div> <h1>Adventure</h1> <h2>Title3</h2><div>data3</div> I would like to end up with matches. "Action", "Title1", "data1" "Action", "Title2", "data...

Copying animation sets to different .x files?

Say I have multiple DirectX .x files each with the same bone hierarchy but different animations. What would I have to copy from one to the other to transfer the animtions over? Is it just everything listed under animation sets in it or is their something else I need as well? ...

Where to manage ACL inheritance?

Where should I best manage a hierarchy of ACLs? I see three possibilities to manage a hierarchy of ACLs: 1) The ACLs themselves manage the hierarchy: class Acl { Acl parent; // ... } 2) Constructing a separate tree structure to manage the hierarchy. 3) Using an already existing hierarchy as the implicit hierarchy for ACLs (like...

C# How to i store website list in xmlnode

I am trying to store website contents in XmlNode. my website structure is Site1 List1 Folder1 Folder2 a] file1 b] file2 Folder3 List2 Site2 List1 List2 Site3 ............... Site4 ......................... So how do i store it in XMLNode. my method should return whole struc...

int (id) or text based hierarchies?

I have a question on best practice for relational databases and hierarchies. My question is, is it more sane to use text or int (id) based hierarchies? I have a hierarchy, but it is not an id based one. The hierarchy is based on text e.g. 'level1', 'level2' as opposed to id1, id2 I use mysql and also solr for managing my data. At the ...

Creating a JSON Tree from a string hierarchy

Given these 4 variables, var el1 = {name:'ronaldo', team: 'europe/spain/realmadrid'} var el2 = {name:'messi', team: 'europe/spain/barcelona'} var el3 = {name:'gerald', team: 'europe/england/liverpool'} var el4 = {name:'unknown english', team: 'europe/england'} I need to produce this JSON tree hierarchy, { "text":"europe", "le...

SQL: Select SUM of all children records recursively

I have a table that has a one to many relationship with itself. Each record can have n number of children from that same table. For example create table folder ID: Number 20 PK PARENT_ID: Number 20 FK references folder.ID SIZE: NUMBER 20 ... Given an ID, I want to select the SUM(SIZE) of all folder records recursively. The target d...

GWT Replace div (not append!) with RootPanel

Hello, In GWT if I do RootPanel.get("someDiv").add(myPanel); I invariably get: <div id="someDiv"><div></div></div> But, I just want 1 level of hierarchy, i.e., <div id="someDiv"><div> where the someDiv contains myPanel. Any ideas? Thanks! ...

Counting number of children in hierarchical SQL data

Hello, for a simple data structure such as so: ID parentID Text Price 1 Root 2 1 Flowers 3 1 Electro 4 2 Rose 10 5 2 Violet 5 6 4 Red Rose 12 7 3 Television 100 8 3 Radio 70 9 8 ...

Hibernate parent-child modeling

I have a Model class. This class should be able to reference itself, i.e. the resulting "output" from the model should be like this. Some instanceOf Model.class |-> Some instanceOf Model.class having parent instance referenced as parent_id |-> Some instanceOf Model.class having ........... The instances represent geographical enti...

Hierarchical Data in MySql

I have table with parent child relation I want an help on recursive query table structure roleId, roleName, parentId 1 Admin 0 2 Backup Admin 2 3 Office User 1 0 4 User 1 3 5 User 2 3 6 Office User 2 0 7 Off User 1 6 I am trying to make recursive ...

Mixing Inheritance and Tree Structure with Fluent nHibernate

Part of a model I'm designing is a hierarchy geographic locations. Since there are multiple layers and share some information I decided to use a class hierarchy like this: public class GeographicNode { public virtual int Id { get; private set; } public virtual string Name { get; set; } public virtual GeographicNode ParentNod...

Tricky logic problem - how to create a set-based solution for this query?

Using SQL Server 2008 and any available features of TSQL, I am trying to work out how to if a set-based solution that does not involve a temp table exists for the following problem: Given a set of nodes that have a parent-child relationship, and a set of key-value pairs that apply to each, and given that the value (for a given key-value...

Database Schema for Hierarchy

I am looking for a generic open source database schema for a basic login, and user management with roles. Users: belong to Business Units which belong to Clients. Users have Roles - Manager, Regional Manager, site manager, worker etc. Users can have multiple roles dependant on the business unit and multiple business units.. Business ...