I don’t understand why the List view’s “Hierarchical” option for a tree-structured DB is only available if the DB appears at the top level of the List view: [image] Here the hierarchical option is not available for the same DB when it appears at the second level: [image]

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In my case (probably the most popular case by far), I am modeling a strict tree structure with the one->many self-relation. This case at least should not be problematic to support, unless adding a third List View level that might refer back to an already-displayed parent.

I offered a possible way of achieving this here : [image] Representing nested relations I believe the simplest case would be to first start with the current database relation as the primary parent and if no relation is defined to the same database (i.e. relation is null), then we would go up one …

No "hierarchical" option in List views for second-level DB?

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Chr1sG February 23, 2023, 6:56pm 2

Can’t say that it answers the ‘Why?’ though

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No "hierarchical" option in List views for second-level DB?

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