Using Effective-Dated Trees

Trees must have an effective date. Effective dates on trees show planned changes in the hierarchy the tree represents.

For example, in the HR Department tree, you want to add a new Hardware department effective 09/01/2001. You do this by copying the current HR Department tree to a new effective date of 09/01/2001, opening the new tree, and adding the Department node for Hardware.

When the current date reaches 09/01/2001, then the HR Department tree with the Hardware department will become effective for application and reporting purposes, and the previous effective date version of the HR Department tree will be a copy for historical purposes.