Node fields not updating on drop

[Tyler]

What I am trying to accomplish: After dragging an element I am sending node info (for all elements) to the server so the records can be created for user preferences.
                    dataSource: data.ProDataSet["treemenu"],
                    dragAndDrop: true,
                    drop: function(e){
                         updatePinPreferences();
                    }
  });

function checkedNodeIds(nodes,docarray) {
            for (var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {

                 try{
                       var parent = treeView.parent(treeView.findByText(nodes[i].text));
                       console.log(nodes[i].text + " | " + nodes[i].index + " | " + nodes[i].itemtype + " | " + icount + " | " + treeView.text(parent) );
                  }
                  catch(e){
                      console.log("CANNOT FIND PARENT " + nodes[i].text ,e);
                      parentName = "";
                  }


                if (nodes[i].hasChildren) {
                    checkedNodeIds(nodes[i].children.view(),docarray);
                }
            }
        }
}

function updatePinPreferences() {
    var treeView = $("#div_tree").data("kendoTreeView"),
        message;

    checkedNodeIds(treeView.dataSource.view(), jdoc);
}

[Ivan Danchev]

Hello Tyler,

The "drop" event fires immediately after a node is dropped, thus, in your example when it fires folder1 is not yet a child of folder2. Consider executing your logic after a small delay. This would allow the dropped node to be actually added as a child of the node it is dropped over. Here's an example: https://dojo.telerik.com/IToFIpUV/2

updatePinPreferences is called after a small delay in the drop event handler. Additionally, I declared jdoc and icount before checkedNodeIds function and I added:

var treeView = $("#div_tree").data("kendoTreeView");

before:

var parent = treeView.parent(treeView.findByText(nodes[i].text));

"parent" does not work only for the Furniture node, which is at the root level, thus it does not have a parent node.

Regards,
Ivan Danchev
Progress Telerik

[Tyler]

Excellent response Ivan, exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you for your time,

Tyler