Submitted by WayneK on 2020/03/10 20:54
Pierre has said you shouldn't overdue multiple parents.
 
1) At what numerical range of multiple parents do you get into the "overdoing" stage?
 
2) Does overdoing it refer solely to maximum number of parents (eg don't have an item with 500 parents), or can excessive refer to the number of items even if the individual parent counts are low (eg 10,000 items with 3 parents each)?
 
I'll have many cases of 2-10 parents but probably not much over that.
 
Wayne

Comments

Hi Wayne,
  1. This hasn't been tested really, and at first sight, it is probably mainly the Properties pane which could be influenced (though this could be optimized most likely)
  2. There is no limit or negative effects to having a very large number of items with parents. So having zillions of items with 1-10 parents is not an issue
My original point was that, as only the main parent is generally shown in the various UIs, having multiple parents can go unnoticed.
With its inverted tree, the Parents section of the Properties does display all parents / grand-parents, etc, but this is a bit hidden
 
Using fields, tags and/or Related items links are sometimes better ways to represent links between items than parent-child
 
YMMV
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Thanks, Pierre.  That's the info I was looking for.
 
Wayne