How to deal of setSelection method when parent and child have the same id for dynamic data? about combo-tree

[nmz787]

I had a similar situation, except I had no data IDs, so I just created this setSelectionByText method, which takes a list of the text strings you would find in each level of hierarchy. So in your case, to select Parrot you would pass setSelectionByText(['Birds', 'Parrot'])

I have only been testing this for an hour or so... so it might have bugs or corner-cases I didn't code for.

Here is the patch to the JS file:

 
+  ComboTree.prototype.setSelectionByText = function(listOfTexts){
+    let results = this.findSelectionByText(this._elemDropDownContainer, listOfTexts);
+    if (results.length==1) {
+        this.singleItemClick(results[0].children('span')[0]);
+    }
+  };
+
+  ComboTree.prototype.findSelectionByText = function(container, listOfTexts){
+    let _this = this;
+    let text_of_interest = listOfTexts[0];
+    listOfTexts = [...listOfTexts];
+    listOfTexts.shift();
+    let results = [];
+    let kids = $(container).children('ul').children('li:contains("' + text_of_interest + '")');
+    if (listOfTexts.length>0) {
+        kids.each(function(index) {
+            results.push(_this.findSelectionByText(this, listOfTexts));
+        });
+        return results;
+    } else if (kids.length==1){
+        return kids;
+    }
+  };
+