Automatically create relationship when adding entry to hierarchy

henry_r

Is there an existing way to automatically create a relationship between two records, when one record is added as a child in a hierarchy using the Location in hierarchy bundle?

For example, say I create an Occurrence, then add another Occurrence as a child of the first via the Location in hierarchy bundle. Is there a way that a relationship between these two Occurrences can be created automatically, with some pre-configured default relationship type?

seth

A plugin would have to be written to do that. All the hierarchy browser does is set it within the hierarchy. This is a form of relationship, so what do you need the explicit relationship as well? Seems redundant?

henry_r

Hi @seth, thanks for your reply.

I see what you mean about hierarchies being redundant with relationships. I've set aside my goal of automatically creating a Relationship when adding entries to a hierarchy, and I'd now like to create a Display that I can use to render the hierarchical relationships between Occurrences in a summary.

I have gotten as far as creating a metadata element with a datatype of Text, with the following display template defined on it:

^ca_occurrences.hierarchy.preferred_labels.name%delimiter=_➔_

The way I read the documentation, this should display "the names of all objects in the hierarchy from top to bottom". However, the full hierarchy only appears when viewing the Occurrence at the lowest level of the hierarchy; when viewing the Occurrence at the root of the hierarchy, it only displays that Occurrence.

Could you point me in the right direction? What am I missing in the display template?