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jokedst YaBB Newbies Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 2 Joined: Nov 13^th, 2006	Auto layout of organisational tree looks odd Nov 13^th, 2006 at 1:48pm	Print Post
	I have an organizational hierarchy, a strict tree that I am trying to get to look good, using WebChart. The problem is that when I let the engine lay out the nodes it just makes a mess of it all... It's about 100 nodes, all having a parent, and it's usually not a very deep, just 3-4 levels. The graph looks all garbled (I'd post a image if this forum allowed it) with lines running across it everywhere. Is there any setting so I can tell it it's a tree? And can I get the arrows to go in straight lines instead of crossing the screen diagonally? I'll try to illustrate: node \| +----+----+ \| \| \| node node node Something like that would be great! I've looked but not found anything


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Auto layout of organisational tree looks odd Reply #1 - Nov 13^th, 2006 at 1:58pm	Print Post
	Hi, What TreeLayout settings do you use? Type=Bordered and ArrowStyle=Cascading3 should arrange the tree as shown in your ASCII art Stoyan


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jokedst YaBB Newbies Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 2 Joined: Nov 13^th, 2006	Re: Auto layout of organisational tree looks odd Reply #2 - Nov 13^th, 2006 at 3:23pm	Print Post
	Wow! Thanks! Exactly what I needed! It's still a bit while though (~20 screens), but that'll just have to do... Unless there is some other nice feature to make it push some subtrees down a bit?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Auto layout of organisational tree looks odd Reply #3 - Nov 13^th, 2006 at 5:22pm	Print Post
	You might use a combination of several different tree layout types. E.g. arrange all subtrees from level 3 with the same settings as in the DirTree sample project, possibly using a negative LevelDistance - that will make the boxes' X coordinates to overlap a bit. Then call child.AttachTo(subtreeRoot) for all child items in all the subtrees, and finally run the original TreeLayout using the KeepGroupLayout setting. That would make the lower levels of the tree occupy less space horizontally, but more space vertically. I hope that helps, Stoyan


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