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To understand how to effectively use this feature and leverage its full potential, let's delve into its core functionality in the following sections.
Getting Started
The Hierarchical View is designed to help you when you have multiple items connected to one another. You can connect other items to the items of a given board by creating a Connect Boards column in the board. (You can read more about this board type in this article in the monday.com Knowledge base).
The Hierarchical view
The Hierarchical view represents your items in a tree format. Here is a breakdown of its structure –
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The Root node: The hierarchical view starts at the current item. This is the root node of the tree. We can explore its connected items from here.
Types of nodes: There are two types of nodes in the tree. Item nodes and Link nodes
Item node: An
item-nodeis the representation of corresponding monday.comItemin the tree. You can configure it to show required information fields using the Item Fields dropdown menu. (This functionality is covered in detail in the Customize Item Nodes section).Link node: Link nodes exist as children to Item nodes. When a monday.com item is connected to other items via a
connected boardrelation, this relation is represented as a child link-node and the relation value, i.e. the connected item is represented as its child node.
Expansion Toggler: You can control the visibility of a node’s children using the expansion toggler present just before the node.
Example Hierarchical View of an Item
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Let us understand the tree structure better using the example in the image above –
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