Hi
I am trying to create a Site where I want to capture and display all the Information(Including the Hardware and Software items being used) about all the Applications(around 300 applications) that we are providing support for an Account. I am trying to model and categorize the structure. I will have a Page for each Application holding the information about the Items that are being used for that Application.
There is a section on that page about the Environments that are being used for that application(say like Production Environment,System test Environment,Development Environment,). Each Environment will be having various Server Types(Web Server, LDAP Server, Database Server e.t.c). and these Environments are Hosted by two companies A and B. I have a Flex Family created to maintain various Server Types and a Flex Family for the SERVER(having attributes like server host name, server port e.t.c) having parent as the server hosting company name(A,B) . The main requirement is that when a contributor is trying to create an Environment i want him to be able to choose a value from drop down. Where say when he is creating values for Web Server in the drop down i should only display all the Servers which are of type Web Server.
I am thinking if I could some how make Server Type family as the Parent of Server Family(companies A and B), then I can display only the servers of a particular type. how can i achieve this feat. I some how feel that it should be possible as this type of feature is pretty normal for an OOAP design.