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I am trying to nest 3 levels of boxes using Smart Containers.  Can that be done?  Instead of recognizing the third level, it is flattening the hierarchy to 2 levels.  Here is my data:

ParentID ShapeID Label
Box1 Box2 Middle box 2
Box1 Box3 Middle box 3
Box4 Box5 Middle box 5
Box4 Box6 Middle box 6
Box3 Box7 Inner box 7

And here is what I am getting from Smart Containers:

I have set Group by to ParentID and Display to the Label.

 

@PPerry Maybe I’m not understanding, but it looks like the output is exactly what you asked it to do per the table because each parent ID has 1-2 shape IDs and labels. If that is not what you want, then you would need to update the table to match what you want. If you want it to look like a Russian doll, I’m not sure how that could be done with the table you presented. Maybe by adding more columns.


A Russian doll is exactly what I was trying to diagram. According to the data example, Box7 should be inside Box 3 which was correctly placed inside Box 1. There should not be a separate Box3 parent. The max I would do is 3 levels meaning that there would be a way to group inside a group. Can I do that somehow?  I am not seeing how another column would help. 

 

 


Hi ​@PPerry

Thanks for clarifying the issue. ​@aparrish is correct that a Russian Doll style diagram cannot be achieved through smart containers. The only way to achieve this would be to do it manually with shapes rather than using a data import.

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