TreeView Expand Client-Side

[Brooke]

I have a treeview with an expand mode of ServerSideCallBack. I would like to be able to select a node by value and expanding the path via client-side. I'm was trying to get all of the parent nodes and call the expand() method down to the node, but after the first expand it told me "could not call expand of null." Could you help me with this problem?

var count = 0;
            $.each(value.list, function (otherkey, othervalue) {
                count = count + 1;
                var tree = $find("pagesLeftNav_treeView");
                var node = tree.findNodeByValue(othervalue.pageid);
                if (count != value.list.length) {
                    node.expand();
                }
            })

[Nencho]

Hello Brooke,

I am afraid that the reason for the experienced issue is the fact that the nodes in ServerSideCallBack expand mode are not yet loaded, until the parent one is expanded. This mode is purposed for loading time optimization which is why the child are not loaded, until the parent is expanded. This is the reason why no reference is acquired using the findNodeByValue and hence the  "could not call expand of null." error is encountered.

If you need to achieve the desired functionality, you would need to avoid using the aforementioned expand mode. You can test the behavior, using ServerSide expand mode for example.

Regards,
Nencho
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