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Browse All TopicsI am encountering a problem when I try to supress(avoid going to server) expand and collapse events of the treeview. I have written a javascript to do so. Eventhough it works fine when i click on '+' and '-" signs, it throws an expection when i click on the node and try to execute a server side event.
for example :
suppose i have 3 nodes and 3 child nodes for each of them
-node1
-node1.1
-node1.2
-node1.3
-node2
-node2.1
-node2.2
-node2.3
If i add the javascript to supress the event ....and when i expand the first node and click on node1.1 it is giving me the runtime error as :
"The node at index 1.1 is not currently displayed in the tree. SelectedNodeIndex cannot be set to an undisplayed node (all parents of a selected node must be expanded). "
Please suggest
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by: raterusPosted on 2004-09-15 at 11:37:02ID: 12068203
I think you are going to run into a problem getting this to work like you want it. I'm assuming autopostback=true on this treeview, right? And you want to suppress the opening/closing of the items, just not the actual clicking on a final destination.
0|0|onsele ctedindexc hange,0.0. 0.0,0.0.0; oncollapse ,0.0.0
Have you looked at what the treeview posts back to the server when autopostback="false", it's pretty ugly and I can't tell you exactly the format it is in nor how to recreate it, but if you want to emulate this functionality you are going to have to keep track of this stuff in your suppression routine. It looks something like this:
myTreeView_State__=0||0|0|
This stuff tells the server what to do to the treeview on a postback, when you suppress the routines, it only gets hit with the selection part, and it doesn't know to open up the nodes and make the selection.
I can see an easy way and a hard way for you at this point:
The easy way which you can quickly implement is to manually open up the nodes on the server when you see a selection, you just have to move up the nodes collection from the selectedindex and open each one up. There is one con to this method that you might not like though. Since the server doesn't know the EXACTLY what you did on the client side to the nodes (open/close) it won't reflect these changes on the client side, so nodes they may have opened but didn't link directly to their select will be reverted back to whatever state they were in to begin with.
Another easy way would be to disable autopostback=true, and just give them a button to push to make the final selection.
The hard way is to figure out that first stuff I mentioned, and post back to the server exactly what they did, if you can figure that stuff out you will be able to fully implement this functionality.
Hope this makes sense,
--Michael