It turns out that filtering out the parent node hides all the children too, so I guess this isn't what I want after all.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Amy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "whatabrain" <junk1@> wrote: > > > > Calling refresh() did nothing. > > > > Note that if I choose to filter out all the child nodes, it works > > perfectly. It's only the parent nodes I can't filter, because the > > filter is never called for them. > > HierarchicalCollectionView has a showRoot property that you could > probably use to turn the parent nodes off. I've cast HierarchcialData > to HierarchicalCollectionView in the past for other reasons ( > http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/musings-on-advanceddatagrid- part- > 5_03.html ), but I am not sure if this would work for you if you're not > using HierarchicalCollectionView already. If you're using a > GroupingCollection, it could also potentially be cast in that way. > > HTH; > > Amy >