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title: "Difference between Hierarchical relationship and Self Relationship in Salesforce."  
description: "Difference between Hierarchical relationship and Self Relationship in Salesforce."  
author: "Paul Wilson"  
published: 2018-01-24  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/33565/difference-between-hierarchical-relationship-and-self-relationship-in-salesforce  
category: "salesforce"  
tags: ["salesforce", "relationship", "self relationship"]  
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# Difference between Hierarchical relationship and Self Relationship in Salesforce.

[Difference](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/398/difference-between-object-type-and-var-type) between Hierarchical [relationship](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/54917/how-to-keep-her-happy-in-a-long-distance-relationship) and [Self](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81704/indian-defense-forces-has-to-be-come-self-reliant-in-finances-too) Relationship in Salesforce.

## Answers

### Answer by Tarun Gautam

## The difference between Hierarchical Relationship and Self-Relationship are as follows:

## Hierarchical relationships

- A Hierarchical Relationship is a special type of lookup relationship which is available only for the user object.
- A Hierarchical Relationship allows users to use a lookup field to collaborate one user with another user without reference to itself directly or indirectly.
- A Hierarchical Relationship is Self-Relationship of the user object.
- For example: We can create a custom field with hierarchical relationship to store each user’s direct manager.

Self-relationship\

- A Self-Relationship is a relationship when an object lookups with itself.
- A Self-Relationship creates a tree diagram of the objects, like an account has a lookup with himself, called Parent Account.
- A special self-relationship of a user object is known as a Hierarchical relationship which helps to create superior roles like a supervisor, manager of the user object.\


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