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Martin Wendt edited this page Apr 9, 2021 · 12 revisions

About Fancytree fixed headers extension (for table extension).

Allow to define top rows and left columns that remain visible while scrolling large tables.

Note: This plugin requires the ext-table extension.

Options

  • fixCols, type: {integer|bool}, default: true

Events

  • scrolled
    Fired after tree status is restored.

Methods

  • {integer} tree.filterBranches(filter, opts)
    Dimm or hide unmatched branches. Matching nodes are displayed together with all descendants.
    filter: {function | string}
    Note: another way to achieve this behavior is to use tree.filterNodes() and return "branch" in response of the matcher-callback
    opts {object}, default: {autoExpand: false}.
      autoExpand: Temporarily expand matching node parents, while filter is active.

Example

In addition to jQuery, jQuery UI, and Fancytree, include jquery.fancytree.fixed.js:

  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script>

  <link href="skin-win8/ui.fancytree.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <script src="js/jquery-ui-dependencies/jquery.fancytree.ui-deps.js"></script>
  <script src="js/jquery.fancytree.js"></script>
  <script src="js/jquery.fancytree.fixed.js"></script>
  <script src="js/jquery.fancytree.gridnav.js"></script>
  <script src="js/jquery.fancytree.table.js"></script>
$("#tree").fancytree({
  extensions: ["table", "fixed"],
  fixed: {
    autoApply: true, // Re-apply last filter if lazy data is loaded
    counter: true, // Show a badge with number of matching child nodes near parent icons
    hideExpandedCounter: true, // Hide counter badge, when parent is expanded
    mode: "hide"  // "dimm": Grayout unmatched nodes, "hide": remove unmatched nodes
  },
  ...
});
// Case insensitive search for titles containing 'foo':
$.ui.fancytree.getTree("#tree").filterNodes("foo");

// Pass additional options in order to restrict search to end nodes or
automatically expand matching nodes:
$.ui.fancytree.getTree("#tree").filterNodes("foo", {autoExpand: true, leavesOnly: true});

For more complex searches, we can pass a compare function instead of a string. The matcher callback should return a truthy value in order to display a node.

var rex = new RegExp("foo", "i");

$.ui.fancytree.getTree("#tree").filterNodes(function(node) {
  return rex.test(node.title);
});

$.ui.fancytree.getTree("#tree").filterNodes(function(node) {
  return node.data.customFlag === true;
});

We can match whole branches too, i.e. matching nodes include all descendants:

$.ui.fancytree.getTree("#tree").filterBranches(function(node) {
  return node.key === "abc";
});

The matcher callback can return the special values "skip" and "branch". This allows to mix branch-mode and simple-mode:

var rex = new RegExp("foo", "i");

$.ui.fancytree.getTree("#tree").filterNodes(function(node) {
  var match = rex.test(node.title);

  if( match && node.isFolder() ) {
    return "branch";  // match the whole 'Foo' branch, if it's a folder
  } else if( node.data.ignoreMe ) {
    return "skip";  // don't match anythin inside this branch
  } else {
    return match;  // otherwise match the nodes only
  }
});

Recipes

[Howto] Highlight matches for custom filters

Automatic highlighting only works for string arguments. If a custom matcher callback is used, Fancytree cannot figure out what part caused a match, but we can set 'node.titleWithHighlight' explicitly to a string that contains <mark> tags:

tree.filterNodes(function(node) {
  if( rex.test(node.title) ) {
    node.titleWithHighlight = "<mark>" + node.title + "</mark>";
    return true;
  }
}
});