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Change the hierarchy tree

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Go to Settings → CategoryThe category hierarchy tree is fully customizable. Simply drag and drop items within the Tree View to change the order and parent/child relationships of categories. You can add new categories as needed or modify existing ones by clicking on a category and updating the data in the Details View.


Hierarchy tree file

The category hierarchy tree will be saved to a file called hierarchy.json

This hierarchy tree data will be used across all loaded libraries.
Since version 2.1.0+ a different hierarchy tree can be defined for each library.

To ensure the software can locate custom hierarchy data, the file must be either placed in the resources folder (DASELEMENT_RESOURCES) at the following specific location or in the folder defined by the hierarchy environment variable (DASELEMENT_HIERARCHY):

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$DASELEMENT_RESOURCES/hierarchy/hierarchy.json

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$DASELEMENT_HIERARCHY/hierarchy.json

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Hierarchy tree overwrite per library

To define a specific hierarchy tree for individual libraries is available for version 2.0.5+a library, create an override in the library settings.

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Edit the hierarchy tree

Each category has the following fields: an ID (by default, the Wikidata ID), a human-readable label, a description text, and synonyms.

Both the category ID and the category name can be used in the Path Builder, the custom command line as well as the ingest view for tags and metadata. Use is as the Path Value tokens, e.g. <category.name>

The user can add, delete, or modify existing synonyms in the details view on the right side. Searching for a synonym will always bring up the corresponding category in views such as the gallery view or the ingest view.

The category hierarchy tree is fully customizable. Simply drag and drop items within the Tree View to change the order and parent/child relationships of categories. You can add new categories as needed or modify existing ones by clicking on a category and updating the data in the Details View.

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You can even customize the hierarchy tree to function as a VFX project with sequences and shots. In this setup, the top-tier categories are the sequence names (001, 002, etc.), and the child categories are the shots (001_0010, 001_0020, etc.).

Default hierarchy file structure

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