Tree Tool Return Values

ConnorM

When using a tree tool in my analytical app with a custom xml. I've noticed if some child elements are selected (but not all), it appears to not return the parent element value. Is there a workaround for this?

Additionally, is there any way to have the tree tool selections default to checked i.e. users would unselect 1-2 child options rather than select all but 2?

apathetichell

so this is kind of how you set up the key/value parsing for your tree tool. my recommendation is to create a key based on:

outerbranch (4 digit number) --- inner branch (4 digit number)

once selected your tree selections will be passed as an array with /n as a seperator. I send this to a text input - and anyone who does anything different doesn't know what they are doing. I then use text to fields to split. I then match what my treetool returns off of the original match db keys to see what values are being returned. Tree should return the outer value when the outer value is selected.

For 2) I don't think so - If you add a first element ( 0001 = outer element 00010001 = first group 000100010001 = first sub item in first group) - selecting the outer first element would auto select all child elements.

I also recommend custom file vs xml.