How to add nodes programatically when using tree view?

[Barani]

Hi,

We are planning to use kendo tree view for displaying a context path as a tree structure, something like

Field value would look something like A/B/C/D

I will split this string using / to get each nodes, I am trying to form tree as below,

A
-B
--C
---D

I am not sure whats the best way to achieve this.

Is it better to form tree datasource object manually and provide it as a datasource?  Or is it good to use append method to append the tree. The problem with append method is that I don't see id for parent node hence I m not sure how to append child corresponding to a particular parent. Can you please let me know the best possible route?

Thanks,
Barani

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Barani,

As I understood it the data consists of one string field that contains information about the path.
In that case I suggest to parse the string manually and build a hierarchical JSON structure. As an example:

data = [{
    text: "A", items: [{
        text: "B", items: [{
              text: "C"
        }]
    }]
}]

After that you can pass the generated structure as a dataSource of the TreeView. Please check this sample.

Kind regards,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

[Barani]

Thanks for your response.

Thanks,
Barani