Does treelist support multiple-to-multiple relations between parent and children?

[Randy]

Hi,

Currently we have data that 1 parent can have multiple children meanwhile a child can belongs to multiple parents. Does treelist support this scenario?

Per what we see now the child will be placed under only 1 parent (maybe the 1st one) but other parents don't have this child available.

Thanks.

[Georgi]

Hello Randy,

Currently the TreeList allows only one parent field to be specified.

e.g.

                        schema: {
                            model: {
                                id: "EmployeeID",
                                parentId: "ReportsTo",
                             ...

One way to display one child within multiple parents would be to duplicate the item on the client and adjust its parent id field. Is that an option for you?

Regards,
Georgi
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[Randy]

Hi Georgi,

Thank you for replying.

Unfortunately duplicating child records does not help on my situation. I may not explained my issue clearly. I created a demo here:

https://dojo.telerik.com/IZoSimav

Pls not there are two records of {id: 60, Name: "Akeem Carr"}, while with different parent ids. No matter what the parent id of the second record is, those two records will both be placed under the parent node with 1st parent id. In the example they are both under {id: 11, Name: "Hyacinth Hood"}. And the actual parent of second child, {id: 42, Name: "Gage Daniels"}, has the expander icon but with no child attached. We observed same behavior in our project.

Could you suggest more?

[Randy]

Hi Georgi,

As a second attempt, after changing the duplicate "Akeem Carr" record with different ids, the treelist displays the parent and children as expected. I think we can start from here by updating our logic to suit this requirement. Thank you for the hint.

[Georgi]

Hi Randy,

That is correct, the ids of the items must be unique as they are used by the dataSource to track the models. Nevertheless, I am happy to hear that this works for you.

Regards,
Georgi
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