depends...are sub-departments actually departments in and of themselves? would a department ever be beneath a division as well as beneath another department?
if they are truly sub-departments, then i'd break them out into a sub-department table. no need to get overly complex. On 7/21/06, Steven Sprouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could I do this... > > In my Departments table create a field that is called SubDept and have it be > either yes or no and another field called SubDeptID and allow null values so > if a dept isn't a sub-department of something it stays blank, but if it is it > will have a number that corresponds to the DeptID. > > Then in my code I could do a cfif statement saying "if subdept equals yes, > then create do a nested unordered list based off of it's corresponding Dept > ID, if no, do nothing" > > Would that even work? Would it still list that sub-department under the main > departments anyway? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:247319 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
