Many of our customers with large decision tree systems in place ask for guidance on how to make a “master tree” which links to individual trees for troubleshooting or other processes. This is especially helpful for organizations that use Zingtree to build and publish completely interactive FAQs. In this article, we’ll discuss how it’s done.
Building a Master Tree
Creating a Master Tree is a simple, yet powerful process that consists of two over-arching steps:
- Build the individual decision trees.
- Build a Master Tree with one node, using a “blank starter tree.”
After building your individual trees and troubleshooters, there are a couple of distinct ways to build a Master Tree. We’ve created an example Master Tree for a few of our Gallery product finders.
Method #1 – Using Tree Tag Lists
1. Use the Settings tool to add tags to the trees you want to include in the Master Tree. For this example, we added the tag “master_finder” to our product finder decision trees.
2. Create a new decision tree to act as your Master Tree.
3. In the Master Tree root node’s content area, include a tree tag list. For our example, we tagged our trees with “master_finder,” so the tree tag list looks like this:
##treetaglist-any: master_finder##
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Method #2 – Using Tree Nodes
1. In the Master Tree, add tree nodes for each tree to link to.
2. In the root node of the Master Tree, create a button for each tree node. This will allow an end-user or customer to quickly jump to any other relevant decision tree from the Master Tree.
Example Master Tree
Here’s a look at our Master Tree in action:
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This article was originally published on Nov 7, 2017, but is just as accurate as ever!