Answers.Body: <p>I will add my answer as an Answer.</p>
  <p>The <a href="http://civicrm.org/extensions/relationship-permissions-acls" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Permissioned Relationship</a> extension does let it go multiple layers</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>The &quot;why&quot; question is fairly straightforward in an open source, community supported and community developed software world: because so far no one wanted more levels badly enough to develop or fund the development of an extensions for it :-)</p>
  <p>But I would certainly recommend playing with the extension that @petednz recommended, and check if you can achieve your requirements.</p>
  <p>And obviously you are very welcome to develop/fund the development of an extension that introduces more levels.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I was faintly aware of the open source, community supported and community developed software environment. ;-)  I just wanted to check whether there were grave architectural issues when this would be developed. But I am very happy with @petednz-fusion's answer.
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Body: <p>I have a structure in which an umbrella organization has a few dozen clubs which have members. And it has some departments some of the members have a relation to.</p>
  <p>Now if I would want one of the admins to have some access to information in the departments, I would have to add the department as a relationship with the proper access rights. This is a tedious job and might lead to faults. I would like to have an intermediate level grouping and departments, but then I am limited to the two degrees<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/hVBwc.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/hVBwc.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
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Comments.Text: You could use groups for access control? Doesn't have to be purely relationships.
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Comments.Text: perhaps i do not understand but Permissioned Relationship extension https://civicrm.org/extensions/relationship-permissions-acls does let it go multiple layers
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Comments.Text: Thanks, @petednz-fuzion. I think that will fit perfectly.
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Title: Why are relationships limited to two degrees?
ThreadText: # Why are relationships limited to two degrees?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-06-29)
  
  I have a structure in which an umbrella organization has a few dozen clubs which have members. And it has some departments some of the members have a relation to.
  
  Now if I would want one of the admins to have some access to information in the departments, I would have to add the department as a relationship with the proper access rights. This is a tedious job and might lead to faults. I would like to have an intermediate level grouping and departments, but then I am limited to the two degrees[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/hVBwc.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/hVBwc.jpg)
  
  I have tried to draw a picture.
  
  **Tags:** relationships
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: You could use groups for access control? Doesn't have to be purely relationships.  
  > **username_2**: perhaps i do not understand but Permissioned Relationship extension https://civicrm.org/extensions/relationship-permissions-acls does let it go multiple layers  
  > **username_0**: Thanks, @username_2. I think that will fit perfectly.  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2021-11-22. Score: 1
  
  I will add my answer as an Answer.
  
  The [Permissioned Relationship](http://civicrm.org/extensions/relationship-permissions-acls) extension does let it go multiple layers
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2020-06-30. Score: 0
  
  The "why" question is fairly straightforward in an open source, community supported and community developed software world: because so far no one wanted more levels badly enough to develop or fund the development of an extensions for it :-)
  
  But I would certainly recommend playing with the extension that @username_2 recommended, and check if you can achieve your requirements.
  
  And obviously you are very welcome to develop/fund the development of an extension that introduces more levels.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I was faintly aware of the open source, community supported and community developed software environment. ;-)  I just wanted to check whether there were grave architectural issues when this would be developed. But I am very happy with @username_2-fusion's answer.  
  
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