Never mind, I just had to keep the index of top level node in my leaf node. Then when the user clicked on the leaf node in other list I had to call tree.expandItem(tree.dataProvider.getItemAt([EMAIL PROTECTED]), true);
This ensured that the node's parent was expanded and I could get the parent by calling tree.getParentItem(node). Regards, Gaurav --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "gaurav1146" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > Is there any way to get the parent item of a node in a tree when the > node is closed. The method tree.getParentItem (node) returns the > parent based on the current state of the tree (open/close). If the > node is not visible in the current state of tree this method returns null. > > The thing is that I am displaying the leaf level nodes of the tree in > another list where a user can select/ deselect them. In the other list > I only have reference to the leaf level nodes of my tree and based on > user's changes to the leaf level nodes I want to modify the original > tree ( / parent of the nodes he changed). > > I tried using the expandItem method so that once the tree is expanded > I could get the parent. But looks like expandItem only works for non > leaf nodes. Please let me know on how to go about it. > > Regards, > Gaurav >
