Technical Considerations for Longer Hierarchies

For longer documents or documents with more than 1,000 mandates you may notice some lag when arranging citations in the hierarchy. Unfortunately there currently is no way to avoid this lag. In these cases completing the hierarchy will take longer than normal.

When we update an existing document (i.e. a quarterly update for a client engagement, an amendment to a law, etc) the hierarchy sometimes randomizes. In these long documents it is important to make sure that the hierarchy remains intact in order to minimize the need to reorganize the mandates. To do this, before creating the re-mapping project, we need to ask a member of the development team to freeze the hierarchy. Upon re-mapping the hierarchy should remain intact, and the only citations that will need to be reorganized are those that have been edited.