Re: Generalised approach to storing address details

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 13 Dec 2006 08:42:33 -0800
Message-ID: <1166028153.051987.297150@t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

> Imprisoning users in Hierarchy and the simulation of paper in a more powerful media, are anchors round the neck of IT users that you would do well to not perpetuate.

Below is a hierarchal presentation of BOM for two cars from recent thread titled "vehicle to autoparts relationships". With a hierarchal interface (ie in dbd), it looks similar to below. But since hierarchies are imprisoning, how would you present the data so that it is more intuitive?

Civic LE
  EngineCfg1
    1.5L Engine

       starter1
       carb1

  Manual Trans
    gear1

Civic SE
  EngineCfg2
    1.6L Engine

       starter1 
       carb2 

  Automatic Trans
    gear1
    gear2 Received on Wed Dec 13 2006 - 10:42:33 CST