Common Elements Used to Describe the Customer Hierarchy Chart

Field or Control	Description
Child node	Denotes node position. A node that is one level below its parent node (except for the top-level node). Every node except the top-level node has one parent node.
Connector	Lines that link the boxes in an interactive chart. Connectors denote parent and child relationships.
Focus node	Represents the individual entity for which data and relationships are retrieved. For example, in the Customer Hierarchy chart, the focus node contains the customer data displayed based on the Customer ID and SetID search criteria.
Level	An interactive chart is made up of boxes, representing nodes, at different levels. The position of a node in a chart is determined by its hierarchical relationship to other entities (parent, sibling, or child).
Main chart	The primary chart in an interactive chart showing individual entities, such as customers or suppliers, in boxes related to one another hierarchically. A user can invoke PeopleCode that displays pop-up information by clicking a link in a box, or node, of the main chart.
Node	A representation of a single entity, an individual instance of data, in an interactive chart. A node is represented as a box with vertical lines connecting it to its parent node and to its child nodes, if any.
Parent node	Denotes node position. A node that has one or more subordinate nodes, or child nodes, one level below it. Each node can be a parent for other nodes.
Pop-up	A new window that displays information specifically related to a node on the main chart or another pop-up. A pop-up can be invoked from a link on a main chart node or from a link on a pop-up node.
Related-actions menu	You can configure a descriptor as a related actions menu. A user can select a link from a cascading drop down menu that invokes a related action predefined in the system.
Sibling node	Denotes node position. Sibling nodes are relative to each other in that they share the same level.