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Mapping making - Parent Daughter status. How deep can you go?

I seem to remember with the old map maker that parent-daughter status was only carried through 3 map layers. With the new atlas, how deep can you actually go before losing status from your deeper daughter maps in your parent map?

  • Prevailing wisdom was that you didn't want to go any deeper than 3 or 4 levels deep.  I don't know if that's because the map files were being parsed from the file system only when they were needed or if it was truly that complicated to get a bubble-up status on the nodes.  Since 9.5 the map data is in the database, so I'm more comfortable with 4-5 layers provided you're not having any resource issues. Of course, I haven't seen enough customers on 9.5 yet with deep map structures to give you a good benchmark.

  • You may go as deep as you want, but the performance may be lower. 4-5 layers sounds reasonable.