[thelist] Organizational Charts
Steve Lewis
nepolon at worlddomination.net
Wed Sep 15 12:08:15 CDT 2004
Rob Smith wrote:
> I'm currently researching the "best" approach for organizational charts that
> everyone (computer savvy, and not so) that's inexpensive; free would be
> better.
Not a standard, and probably not even the "best" approach, but here is
a resource I use for a number of different tasks, including quickly
drawing hierarchies:
<tip type="dynamic image generation">
Need to draw some relationships? Throwing together an org chart of a
class hierarchy or even a
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/refs.html
A simple text file such as the following is used as the input to DOT.
DOT will then build the tree for you automagically. It can handle
any mapping of data I can imagine. I use it for both trees and graphs
(using "graphs" in the mathematical sense, not the Excel sense).
begin input file
- -
graph
{
// The syntax for comments may be familiar,
// and whitespace is ignored.
// you can define a node's appearance easily
Boss [label="Queso Grande" shape="square"]
// ...etc.
// connect your nodes with edges,
// and define the edge's appearance
Boss -- ManagerA [arrowhead="odot" arrowtail="dot"];
Boss -- ManagerB [arrowhead="odot" arrowtail="dot"];
Boss -- ManagerC [arrowhead="odot" arrowtail="dot"];
Boss -- ManagerD [arrowhead="odot" arrowtail="dot"];
ManagerA -- CogA1;
ManagerA -- CogA2;
ManagerA -- CogA3;
ManagerB -- SupervisorBa;
ManagerB -- SupervisorBb;
ManagerB -- SupervisorBc;
SupervisorBa -- CogB1;
SupervisorBa -- CogB2;
SupervisorBb -- CogB3;
SupervisorBb -- CogB4;
SupervisorBc -- CogB5;
SupervisorBc -- CogB6;
ManagerC -- CogC1;
ManagerC -- CogC2;
ManagerC -- CogC3;
ManagerD -- CogD1;
ManagerD -- CogD2;
ManagerD -- CogD3;
}
- -
end input file
</tip>
Steve Lewis
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