What about adding a phase listener to expand the nodes just before rendering? Or as I have suggested before, Shale's prerender method?
sean On 8/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well its more a ugly hack than a solution, but as long as there are no > methods for that in the TreeModel you could mimic the behaviour with > customized code form the expandAll() and expandEverything() methods of > UITreeData in your backing bean getter method that supplies the TreeModel.

