Hello,

You can set up the Global Node Layouts to use the Definition the Database tables and the associated relationships.

For example, if I create an Entity Data Model for the Employee in the NorthWind database such that my Entity is Employee and my Relationship is named Employees1.

Then I can create my Global Node Layouts to use this relationship:

<ig:XamOrgChart x:Name="NWOrgChart" Margin="100,100">         

            <ig:XamOrgChart.GlobalNodeLayouts>

                <ig:OrgChartNodeLayout TargetTypeName="Employee"

                                       DisplayMemberPath="LastName"

                                       />

                <ig:OrgChartNodeLayout TargetTypeName="Employees1"

                                       DisplayMemberPath="LastName"

                                       Key="Employees1"/>

            </ig:XamOrgChart.GlobalNodeLayouts>

        </ig:XamOrgChart>

Then I only need to massage my data back from the database slightly to ensure I only have one root:

Employees = context.Employees;

var Managers = (from emp in Employees

       where emp.Employee1 == null

       select emp).ToList();

NWOrgChart.ItemsSource = Managers;

and I have my Org Chart.

I have attached a sample which uses SL but the code should be relatively the same using WPF.

Sincerely,

Valerie

Developer Support Engineer 

Infragistics

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