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Default hierarchys - can you build an elegant hierarchy using vba

dear tim sorry missed your reply

yes a treeview would be excellent - especially if it could add or delete new
members and/or move the members to different places

for any hierarchy i always want a level , a name , a member , a parent or
child - property against any member in the tree

so can excel do this or do we have an OCX control - as yet i have not seen
one and i am feeeling excel cannot do this elegantly
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C Ward


"Tim Williams" wrote:

A treeview is like the "folder" view in windows explorer. Isn't that the
kind of thing you'd need in order for your user to visualize the connections
they're making?

Tim

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Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


"christopher ward" wrote in
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what is a treeview ?

I guess at most a product dimension for me may have 4 levels and at the
lowest level maybe 500 products although this figure may be 50 depending

on
who uses the sheet , lets say 50 codes who have 30 parents who have 4

parents
with a master code at top of hierarchy


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C Ward


"Tim Williams" wrote:

Would a treeview approach work in this context?
What volume of data - 100's, 1000's of records?

Tim

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Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


"christopher ward" wrote in
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i should also add if I have a hierarchy on products i need code to add

or
delete or move any given item in the hierarchy - this functionality

will
be
added to a system i have written in Excel 2003 and needs to be user
friendly
- so far the systems works but i see no easy way for hierarchy

generation
over many dimensions even if they only have single hierarchys - pivot
table
does not help me - i need raw codde to create the relationships thats

easy
to
use - i can discuss offline if needed


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C Ward


"Tim Williams" wrote:

Christopher,

What does this translate to in terms of Excel ? I understand the
concept
but what should the resulting excel file be able to *do* ? Is it a

tool
for
creating the relationships, displaying the relationships, or what ?

Tim.

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Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


"christopher ward" wrote

in
message ...
i have a sheet with a number of product codes as an example
using a hierarchy tool i want to create parents and grandparents -

i.e
a
basic olap hierarchy on a dimension ( im used to Oracle OLAP doing
this
naturally ) but i suspect i need an OCX control to help me - it

must
have
been done before


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C Ward


"Tim Williams" wrote:

What is it that you want your drill up/down function to do?

Tim

"christopher ward"

wrote
in
message

...
experts - I assume excel can not do this ...............

can anyone help ??

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C Ward


"christopher ward" wrote:

hi all

a question to all you experts - is it possible to build a

basic
hierarchy
using vba ( I know Vb has an object in its toolbox )

or does anyone have an ocx etc ??

my sheet has a range of product values and i would like to

build
a
drill
up
and drill down function usinf standard excel

if you reply - thanks in advance


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C Ward - a novice user !!!!