CheckBoxList within NodeTemplate

[Stephen]

I'm trying to do something that I think shold be simple but it doesn't seem to be working.  I have the TreeView set with a datasource to build out one level of nodes.  Within each of those nodes I want a CheckBoxList which uses another datasource.  When I do this though the CheckBoxList doesn't show up at all.  Do I need to go about this another way?

<telerik:RadTreeView ID="rtvCapabilities" runat="server" CheckBoxes="false" DataSourceID="odsCapabilityList" DataTextField="Capability_ID" DataValueField="Capability_ID">
   <Nodes>
       <telerik:RadTreeNode>
           <NodeTemplate>
               <asp:CheckBoxList ID="cblExpertise" runat="server" RepeatColumns="3" RepeatDirection="Vertical" DataSourceID="odsWSExpertiseList" DataTextField="Description" DataValueField="ID" />
           </NodeTemplate>
       </telerik:RadTreeNode>
   </Nodes>
</telerik:RadTreeView>

[Kate]

Hello Stephen,

Please try using the approach described in this help article Adding and Editing Templates at Runtime.

Greetings,
Kate
the Telerik team

[Stephen]

Thanks for the reply.  I took a look at that and it helps but the problem is that  I have a datasource for my main nodes and under each node I want the CheckBoxList.  If I try to set a datasource in the PageLoad instead of harcoding the nodes it doesn't work and it just makes the CheckBoxList the parent node...unless of course I am doing something wrong.

I have a list of Capabilities in the database and a list of Expertise.  Basically I want the tree nodes to be the Capabilities and each Capability should have a CheckBoxList which is populated by the list of Expertise.

So do I have to do all of this in the codebehind?  If so how do I set the datasource of the nodes to be the Capabilities and then have the CheckBoxList under each node?

[Kate]

Hello Stephen,

To be able to apply different templates (or no templates) on the different levels of the nodes it is recommended that you use code behind. Attached to this post you can find a very simplified runnable page that demonstrates how this can be done. Please use the example as a base to implement the desired control in the template and extend it as desired. 

Greetings,
Kate
the Telerik team