The View Hierarchy feature allows users to view Archive records in a hierarchical tree view. Top-level records are displayed as folders in the tree view. The folders can be individually expanded to show the child records, which in turn can be expanded if they also have children.

Selecting a record in the tree-view will activate the Edit Record button in the action bar, allowing the record to be edited in the Archival Description Editor interface.

A selected record can also be copied using the Copy Record action. The new copy will then be opened in the Archival Description Editor.

This feature requires server version 10.8 or higher.

View a specific record tree 

To view a specific branch of the tree, perform a search of the Archives module to locate the desired Archive record. At the Full Display of the record, click the View Hierarchy button in the action bar.

This method will launch the hierarchy view, and load all records linked to the selected record, including any parent, sibling and child records. If sibling records have their own children, those nodes may also be expanded. 

Browse all Archive records in Hierarchy View

To browse all Archives records in the hierarchy tree, navigate to the Archives module, expand the Other menu and click View Hierarchy.

To minimise the performance impact when browsing all records, only the first 50 nodes (alphabetically) in a level will be loaded. To load an additional 50 records, click the Show more... node.

As with the first 50 records, any records loaded by clicking Show more... will be following the currently loaded nodes in alphabetical order.