Is parentId field required to be null?

[Matt]

I'm creating a TreeList from remote data that will be defined by the end user and that I won't have control over.  When I receive data from the data source where parentId = 0, no data loads.  When I receive data where parentId = null (for root nodes), the values load successfully.

So...is it required that the parentId value for root nodes be null or is there a flag I can set for the parentId field that says something like "consider nodes whose parentId = 0 to be a root node"?

 

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hi,

There is no need for the parentId to be null in order to bind the TreeList. In your case you can set something like:

 fields: { parentId: { defaultValue: 0 } }

and it should work.

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
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