Usage Guide

The Hierarchical View in Links Explorer is a feature designed to display the complete hierarchy of an item and its links with other items. It can span across various boards and workspaces, providing a unified and comprehensive perspective of your project's structure.

To understand how to effectively use this feature and leverage its full potential, let's delve into its core functionality in the following section.

Hierarchical view

Here is a breakdown of the tree structure –

• 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.

  • In the example above, observe how the root node of the tree is represented: it is the top-level item node, identified by sharing its name with the current item on which the view is opened.

• Types of nodes: There are two types of nodes in the tree. Item nodes and Link nodes

  • Item node: Anitem-node is the representation of corresponding monday Item in 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)

    • In the example, observe that each of the relevant Monday items is represented as an Item node.

  • Link node: Link nodes can exist only as children to a given Item node. When a Monday item is connected to other items via a connected board relation, this relation is represented as a child link-node and the relation value, i.e. the connected item is represented as its child node(s).

    • In the example, the item Create Banking app MVP - Beta is connected to the item
      Login Methods via the board connection named Requires (along with two other items).

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    • Observe that in the tree, the node Create Banking app MVP - Beta has the child link-node Requires , which is the name of the corresponding column. The values of this column are shown as its children item nodes. Identify that the node Login Methods is present here along with the other connected values.

• Expansion Toggler: You can control the visibility of a node’s children using the expansion toggler present just before the node.