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Srividya SharmaSrividya Sharma 

Account Hierarchy Query

Hi

 

Can anyone tell me how to construct the query to obtain the account hierarchy for a given account?

 

select Id, ParentId from Account where Id=123

 

this gives the parentid for this account.

 

How do I go from here?

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

 

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MiddhaMiddha

If you have a small set of Accounts or you can add some other filter criteria, you can query all the Accounts and then use a recursive method to create a hirarchy.

 

Or

 

you can also use this querye: Select Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.ParentId, Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.ParentId, Parent.Parent.Parent.ParentId, Parent.Parent.ParentId, Parent.ParentId, ParentId From Account

 

to fetch parents till 5 level to get parents upto 5 level above. Have not tried this query, but should work.

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MiddhaMiddha

If you have a small set of Accounts or you can add some other filter criteria, you can query all the Accounts and then use a recursive method to create a hirarchy.

 

Or

 

you can also use this querye: Select Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.ParentId, Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.ParentId, Parent.Parent.Parent.ParentId, Parent.Parent.ParentId, Parent.ParentId, ParentId From Account

 

to fetch parents till 5 level to get parents upto 5 level above. Have not tried this query, but should work.

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Srividya SharmaSrividya Sharma

Thank you for this query.

 

Unfortunately, even in Force.com explorer, only the following query works:

 

Select  Parent.ParentId, ParentId From Account

 

This gives just 2 levels.

 

Any furher help for getting all the levels or at least 5 levels would be greatly appreciated.

 
GowthamSenGowthamSen

Hi,

 

I tried the same way for Contact. But seems not working.

 

SELECT Contact.Name , Name FROM Contact

 

Here Contact is having a field "Reports To" defines the recursive relationship to table Contact.

 

When I run the above query to get the Supervisor for Name,  I got the following error:

 

INVALID_FIELD:
SELECT Contact.Name , Name FROM Contact
                      ^
ERROR at Row:1:Column:23
duplicate field selected: Name

 

Could you please help me here to solve the issue?

 

I understand the first solution explained in your reply, but I donno just how to do that? Could you please give me some guidance here?

 

Best Regards

Gowtham