Content management system and methodology for implementing a complex object using nested/recursive structures

A method of organizing information in a content management system comprising the steps of:

• creating tables horizontally in the system by:
• specifying a number of child types from a root component instance or any parent component instance;
• specifying an array of child type structures;
• looping through the child type structures specified in the array to process the insertion of component instances into component tables, such that any number of child component tables can be processed horizontally.

A computer program product for organizing information in a content management system, the computer program product including a plurality of computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable medium, wherein the instructions, when executed by the content management system, cause the system to perform the steps of:

• receiving first input, by a stored procedure in the system, indicating a number of tables to be created horizontally in a tree-based data storage hierarchy;
• receiving second input, by the stored procedure, indicating a number of tables to be created vertically in the tree-based data storage hierarchy;
• and
• creating the tree-based data storage hierarchy including a root table and at least one child table, the tree-based data storage hierarchy including the number tables indicated horizontally and vertically in the receiving steps.

A computer program product for organizing information in a content management system, the computer program product including a plurality of computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable medium, wherein the instructions, when executed by the content management system, cause the system to perform the steps of:

• creating tables horizontally in the system by:
• specifying a number of child types from a root component instance or any parent component instance;
• specifying an array of child type structures;
• looping through the child type structures specified in the array to process the insertion of component instances into component tables, such that any number of child component tables can be processed horizontally, and
• creating tables vertically in the system by:
• specifying the number of components to be created for each child component table;
• specifying an array of component structures including attribute values;
• looping through the array of component structures and using the attribute values in each component structure of the array to create a component instance for each component structure respectively.