Hi Mike,

Thank you for pointing that object out. But how do I use it with TreeGrid? I tried something like that, and no call to the server occurs:

                var ds = new $.ig.TreeHierarchicalDataSource({
                    treeDS: {
                        dataSourceUrl: '/Home/GetTreeDataPlain',
                        childDataKey: 'Employees'
                    }
                });

                $treegrid.igTreeGrid({
                    dataSource: ds,
                    ...
                });

                ds.dataBind();

Note that I got the same TreeGrid working with the following code:

 $treegrid.igTreeGrid({
                    dataSource: '/Home/GetTreeDataPlain',
                    childDataKey: 'Employees',
                    ...
 });

Thanks again!

Hello,

From what you have provided the syntax appears to be correct. Would you be able to send me your code for the entire page so I can take a look at it and see what is going on? Do you have an isolated sample?

Mike,

I certainly can. How and where do I submit my project?

Thank you!

Hello,

You can attach the sample to the forums by going to the Options tab when replying with an update. If you don’t want to share your code on the forums I can create a private case where you can upload the sample.

Hello,

Thank you for the update. I have done some looking into this matter and instead of setting the dataSourceUrl you will want to set the dataSource, for example:

var ds = new $.ig.TreeHierarchicalDataSource({
                dataSource: '/Home/GetTreeDataPlain',
            });

Thank you, Mike!

Hello,

The initial call to the server for the root level data is happening twice because you have you call databind after you setup the igTreeGrid. Like so:

ds.dataBind();

The igTreeGird will call databind itself, you do not need to call it an additional time. Currently there isn’t a way to access the dataLevel from the customEncodeUrlFunc, so the way to do this be to us the rowexpanded/rowexpanding.

Mike,

Thank you! I came up with a pretty much the same solution:

            var ds = new $.ig.TreeHierarchicalDataSource({
                dataSource: '/Home/GetTreeDataPlain',
                treeDS: {
                    customEncodeUrlFunc: function (rec, expand) {
                        return '/Home/GetTreeDataPlain?id=' + rec.ID.toString() + '&name=' + rec.LastName;
                    }
                }
            });

            $treegrid.igTreeGrid({
                dataSource: ds,
                childDataKey: 'Employees',
                ...
            });

            ds.dataBind();

There is one issue with that, though: the initial call to the server for the root level nodes is issued twice for some reason. (A bug?)

One more question about customEncodeUrlFunc: is there a way to pull the current data level from the rec argument object? It seems that it's present inside that object (__ig_options.dataLevel), but I am not sure how to get that value. As a workaround I subscribed to rowExpanding event where I can pull it from ui.dataLevel and store in an external variable, but it seems like a hackey way of doing things.

Hello,

I have done some further looking into this matter and it seems like the datasource is having an issue. As an alternate way to achieve the behavior you can do the following code after you initialize the treeGrid:

$treegrid.data("igTreeGrid").dataSource.settings.treeDS.customEncodeUrlFunc = function (record, expand) {
                return "/Home/GetTreeDataPlain?stuff='howdy'"
            }

Hello,

Thank you for your patience. I am currently looking into this behavior with my team to see why this happening and how to achieve the intended behavior. I will continue to look into this matter and update you with my progress.