Recursive Depth-First Traversal for Hierarchical Data
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The implemented solution retrieves the full organizational hierarchy using a recursive depth-first traversal approach.

The logic is based on a function that accepts:

  • A parent organization ID
  • A collection used to accumulate child nodes

The function performs the following steps:

  1. It retrieves all direct child organizations for the given parent.
  2. Each child is added to the output collection.
  3. For every child, the same function is called recursively, passing:
    • The child as the new parent
    • The updated collection of results
  4. This process continues until all levels of the hierarchy are explored.

This approach ensures that:

  • The hierarchy is traversed depth-first
  • All descendants of a node are retrieved before moving to the next sibling
  • The final output contains the complete organizational tree under the initial parent 

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Not an idea to improve the platform, this should be posted as a discussion post on the Forum.