What is the “parent” of a node?
tagsParents, children, and transclusionstagsIt may not be clear to everyone what the idea of a “parent” is, and how it relates to Compendium. There really isn’t the idea of one node being another node’s parent in Compendium. Nodes themselves don’t have parents or children — that is, one node doesn’t come from another node. For that matter, there really isn’t an inherent “up” or “down” in Compendium in the same sense as, say, Windows Explorer or any other hierarchical system. This is something that makes Compendium different from most concept-mapping or mind-mapping applications. Even the Home Window is not really the “top” of a database, because maps and lists don’t have to be navigable to from there (although it is a good practice to do so). In Compendium, a node can appear on any number of views (maps or lists). This is called “transclusion,” a hypertext term that means the same object is in more than one view.
tags Parents, children, and transclusions tagsIt may not be clear to everyone what the idea of a “parent” is, and how it relates to Compendium. There really isn’t the idea of one node being another node’s parent in Compendium. Nodes themselves don’t have parents or children — that is, one node doesn’t come from another node. For that matter, there really isn’t an inherent “up” or “down” in Compendium in the same sense as, say, Windows Explorer or any other hierarchical system. This is something that makes Compendium different from most concept-mapping or mind-mapping applications. Even the Home Window is not really the “top” of a database, because maps and lists don’t have to be navigable to from there (although it is a good practice to do so). In Compendium, a node can appear on any number of views (maps or lists). This is called “transclusion,” a hypertext term that means the same object is in more than one view. If you make a change to a node in one Compendium view, it changes ever
