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description: To organize and link individual marketing campaigns together, use parent and child relationships to associate campaigns in a campaign hierarchy. You can think of a hierarchy as a family tree. Metrics from child campaigns roll up to the parent, so you can access data for individual campaigns or in aggregate. You can build a hierarchy to focus on marketing channels, fiscal periods, long-term projects, or any other factor that makes sense for your business. A campaign hierarchy can support up to five levels.
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# Understand Campaign Hierarchy

To organize and link individual marketing campaigns together, use parent and child relationships to associate campaigns in a campaign hierarchy. You can think of a hierarchy as a family tree. Metrics from child campaigns roll up to the parent, so you can access data for individual campaigns or in aggregate. You can build a hierarchy to focus on marketing channels, fiscal periods, long-term projects, or any other factor that makes sense for your business. A campaign hierarchy can support up to five levels.

### Required Editions

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d45984e73 ">To view campaigns:</td>

          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d45984e73 ">Read on campaigns</td>

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d45984e73 ">To view campaign hierarchies:</td>

          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d45984e73 ">Read on campaigns</td>

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d45984e73 ">To add, edit, or delete hierarchy columns:</td>

          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d45984e73 ">Modify All Data</td>

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Before users can create a hierarchy, an admin adds the Parent Campaign field to campaign records. To build a tree of campaigns, a user enters the name of the campaign into the Parent Campaign field and repeats the process to create family units.

- A campaign hierarchy can support only one currency in its child campaigns.
- A parent campaign’s statistics include aggregate values based on all its child campaigns, regardless of the current user’s sharing settings. To limit what’s shown to users, an admin can hide fields from the Campaign Hierarchy related list.
- A user without access to a particular campaign can’t access its detail page from the Campaign Hierarchy related list.
- All fields and values remain available in reports, even if items have been hidden on campaign records.

#### See Also

- [Allow Users to Create Campaign Hierarchies](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.campaigns_hierarchy_setup.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Before users can associate campaigns in a hierarchy, an admin must configure campaign page layouts to support it. Set up field-level security, and then add the Parent Campaign field and related list to campaign records.")
- [Create a Campaign Hierarchy](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.campaigns_viewhierarchy.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To organize campaigns and link them together, you can associate them with parent and child relationships in a campaign hierarchy. When you run reports, metrics from the child campaigns roll up to the parent.")