Need suggestion to achieve this functionality

Question

Hi,
I was looking at cfgrid and cftree functionality. Is it possible to incorporate cftree within cfgrid. if I can create a tree like structure in cfgrid. I am looking for something like below: The hyphens would be replaced by checkboxes...
- Folders
   - subdfolder1
      - subsubfolder1
      - subsubfolder2
  - subfolder2
     - subsubfolder1
     - subsubfolder2
- Folder2
  - etc...
I am looking for something rich looking solution. It would be great if you can give some suggestion on these

Answer 1

Grid and Tree are alternative ways of representing data in two dimensions. One is a table, the other, well, a tree.
The addition of checkboxes is also superfluous, because a cfgrid or cftree enables you to make a selection.  However, there's nothing stopping you from putting 2 or more trees in a form.
Here is an example I borrowed from the Adobe Livedocs on cftree . The cfdocexamples datasource is pre-installed in Coldfusion, so you can run it directly.
<cfquery name="getCourses" datasource="cfdocexamples">
    SELECT d.dept_name, c.course_id, c.CorName, c.CorLevel, c.corName ||' ( ' ||c.corLevel ||' )' AS corLabel
    FROM CourseList c, Departments d
    WHERE d.Dept_ID = c.Dept_ID
    ORDER BY d.dept_Name, c.corName, c.corLevel
</cfquery>
<cfform name="studentForm" format="flash" width="400" height="450">
    <cfformgroup type="vertical">   
    <cftree name="courseTree1">
        <cfinput type="checkbox" name="chkbx1">
        <cftreeitem 
            query="getCourses" 
            value="dept_name,Course_id" 
            display="dept_name,CorLabel" queryasroot="NO" expand="yes,no">
    </cftree>
    <cftree name="courseTree2">
        <cfinput type="checkbox" name="chkbx2">
        <cftreeitem 
            query="getCourses" 
            value="dept_name,course_id" 
            display="dept_name,corName" queryasroot="NO" expand="yes,no">
    </cftree>    
    </cfformgroup>
</cfform>