Well, I managed to get something working - but, it's ugly and feels like a hack. Not to mention, if the structure of TreeView rendered by Kendo changes, this will probably break. Is there a better way to do this?
01.// node is the starting tree node - e.g. tree.root[0]
02.// folders is an array of folder names - e.g. ["documents", "pictures", "kittens"]
03.function treeSelectFolder(node, folders) {
04. if (folders.length > 0) {
05. var txt = folders.shift();
06. console.log("tree node ", node);
07. var $node = $(node);
08. $node.children("li.k-item").find("span.k-in").each(function (){
09. var $this = $(this);
10. if ($this.text().toLowerCase() == txt) {
11. var $el = $this.closest("li.k-item");
12. efTree.expand($el);
13. if (folders.length == 0) {
14. efTree.select($el);
15. efTree.trigger( 'select', {node: $el} );
16. }
17. else {
18. treeSelectFolder($($el.get()[0]).find("ul.k-group").get()[0], folders);
19. }
20. }
21. });
22. }
23.}