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• Josh

  Posted on Nov 15, 2011 (permalink)

  I need to programmatically select an item in the tree view and expand it.  I can select it by setting the SelectedItem = (some object in my collection on my viewmodel).  How can I expand the SelectedItem?  I assume I need to get to the RadTreeViewItem.IsExpanded for the SelectedItem, but how do I get to the RadTreeViewItem that is selected?

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• Tina Stancheva Tina Stancheva

  Posted on Nov 18, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Josh,
  
  Please have a look at this blog post and let me know if it helps you implement your scenario or if I'm missing something.
  
  Kind regards,
  Tina Stancheva
  the Telerik team

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• Yu

  Posted on Dec 20, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Tina,
  BringPathIntoView() works in this scenario. what if i have SelectedItem set in VM and i only want to highlight the parent node that contains the specific child node?
  Why Selected event is not firing when load the RadTreeView with SelectedItem set?
  
  Thanks,

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• Tina Stancheva Tina Stancheva

  Posted on Dec 23, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Yu,
  
  I am not sure I understand you first requirement - highlight the parent node that contains the specific child node. Can you please elaborate more on it? Is the node that you're bringing into view also the selected node? Or you have a selected item and you need to bring into view another item?
  
  If your scenario is to have a selected item and then bring another item into view without selecting it but highlighting its parent item, then you can follow the approach in the blog post but without selected the item that is brought into view. Basically in the blog post solution you need to modify the BringItem method like so:
  

  private void BringItem(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

  {

      BusinessItem item = this.sampleVM.GetItemByName(this.textBox.Text);

      if (item != null)

      {

          //item.IsSelected = true;

          string path = item.GetPath();

          myTreeView.BringPathIntoView(path);

          myTreeView.ContainerFromItemRecursive(item.Parent).Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Orange);

      }

  }

  Please note that the item that will be brought into view isn't selected - its IsSelected property isn't changed and that we use the RadTreeView.ContainerFromItemRecursive method to get the RadTreeViewItem container of the parent item to change its background.
  
  Also, when you set the SelectedItem property when loading the RadTreeView control the SelectionChanged and PreviewSelectionChanged events are fired so if you want to handle the selection or implement a custom logic based on it, these are the events that you need to handle.
  
  I hope this information will help you. Please let us know if we can further assist you.
  
  Greetings,
  Tina Stancheva
  the Telerik team

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