Sorting Parent Child

[kcmtnbiker]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to sort parent child records within Excel?
The child records may be up to 5 "levels" deep. I have two columns that I
can work with, RecordID and ParentRecordID. Here is an example of what I am
working with:

ID ParentID Item
1 0 General
2 1 TPP
3 1 Services
4 2 Food
5 2 Software
6 1 Consulting
7 5 Custom Software

I would like to be able to sort them so that they are in a "tree view" or
hierarch format so that all child records roll up to their respective parent.
Thanks.

 

[Duke Carey]

Excel is not very well suited for this type of thing. You can do it in SQL
Server or MSDE by following the code at this site

http://www.sqlmag.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=16123&

The author, Itzik Ben-Gan, has written several articles about dealing with
hierarchies and I've found his articles to be clear and very helpful

Since I last checked this link you now have to pay to get the article. If
you do an MSN search for his name you might find the same info elsewhere for
free

 

[David McRitchie]

See Sorting an Outline format, Peter Huang [MSFT], programming, 2003-09-15
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

actually it's a bit unusual to see a reply from a Microsoft employee