# How do you build a org chart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-graph\ **Created:** [September 10, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-build-a-org-chart/60225 "2016-09-10T21:38:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yeikel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yeikel/32/125434_2.png) [@yeikel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yeikel)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-build-a-org-chart/60225/1 "2016-09-10T21:38:48Z")
I have the following data : ``` Parent_id | ID | Company name null 1 Company A 1 2 Company B 2 3 Company C 3 4 Company D 3 5 Company E ``` My goal it is to create a graph that resembles the hierarchy of that data. How can I define this relationship? ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-build-a-org-chart/60225/2 "2016-09-12T10:39:51Z")
The Graph api currently relies on entities of the same type (in your case, companies) being found in the same field. If you plot companies from the `id` and `parentId` field then `id:CompanyB` will be represented as a different vertex from `parentId:CompanyB`. To overcome this you have to put a copy of company names into a common field e.g. `parent_and_child_ids`. Here is your data and the mapping as an example: ``` DELETE org PUT org { "settings": { "number_of_replicas": "0", "number_of_shards": "1" }, "mappings": { "doc": { "properties": { "id": { "type": "string", "index": "not_analyzed", "copy_to":"parent_and_child_ids" }, "parent_id": { "type": "string", "index": "not_analyzed", "copy_to":"parent_and_child_ids" }, "parent_and_child_ids": { "type": "string", "index": "not_analyzed" } } } } } POST org/doc { "id":"Company A" } POST org/doc { "id":"Company B", "parent_id": "Company A"} POST org/doc { "id":"Company C","parent_id": "Company B" } POST org/doc {"id":"Company D","parent_id": "Company C"} POST org/doc {"id":"Company E","parent_id": "Company C"} ``` Then if you use the Graph UI tool with "certainty" set to 1 and "significant links" turned off you would get this visualization: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b49466467c875c7afd79a2f849283e0d4783f0ea.jpg) Note that there is no notion of "up" - we just know these companies are related and so A is not necessarily positioned at the top. Hierarchies are a special form of graph and one that our existing elastic Graph tools are not specialized for. You're probably better off loading data into a dedicated org-chart tool. ---
**Author:** ![yeikel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yeikel/32/125434_2.png) [@yeikel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yeikel)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-build-a-org-chart/60225/3 "2016-09-12T13:33:30Z")
> [@Mark\_Harwood](#): > > POST org/doc > { "id":"Company A" } > POST org/doc > { "id":"Company B", "parent\_id": "Company A"} > POST org/doc > { "id":"Company C","parent\_id": "Company B" } > POST org/doc > {"id":"Company D","parent\_id": "Company C"} > POST org/doc > {"id":"Company E","parent\_id": "Company C"} I appreciate your help. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-build-a-org-chart/60225/4 "2017-07-06T13:42:29Z")