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# Create a Campaign Hierarchy

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.

### Required Editions

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d48633e75">User Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48633e75 ">To view campaigns:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48633e75 ">Read on campaigns</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48633e75 ">To view campaign hierarchies:</td>

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              <p>Read on campaigns</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Read on the Parent Campaign field on
                campaigns</p>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48633e75 ">To add, edit, or delete hierarchy columns:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d48633e75 ">Modify All Data</td>

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You can create a robust hierarchy up to five levels deep.

1. Create or open the campaign record of a campaign that you want to use as a child.
2. In the Parent Campaign field, select the campaign to use as the parent.
    
    ![Campaign fields show Parent Campaign field dropdown with cursor over Email Marketing.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/sales_core/images/campaigns/campaigns_parent_field_selector.png)
3. To see where in the hierarchy a campaign appears, open the campaign record and click **View Campaign Hierarchy**.

![Example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/images/icon_example.png)

Example

Christo wants to track his team’s email marketing efforts, so he creates the top-level campaign called Email Marketing. To organize his product communications, he creates several campaigns to use as parents: Product Newsletter, All New Widgets, and Protect Your Purchase. He also creates quarterly campaigns for new products and separate campaigns to promote service contracts. Each time he creates a new quarterly campaign, he adds the correct parent campaign.

For his campaign hierarchy, he makes Product Newsletter the parent campaign for All New Widgets and Protect Your Purchase. When he’s done, his hierarchy looks like this.

![Campaign Hierarchy screen shows 4 levels, including Product Newsletter, All New Widgets, and Protect Your Purchase. Additional parents and children round out the hierarchy.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/sales_core/images/campaigns/campaigns_hierarchy_example.png)

#### See Also

- [Understand Campaign Hierarchy](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.campaigns_hierarchy.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "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.")