How to expand children of the node using userhandle in React Diagram Layout?

This article explains how to expand the children of a node using a user handle in React Diagram Layout. In the React Diagram layout, we can expand and collapse a large number of nodes with the expand and collapse feature. Additionally, we can achieve the expansion and collapse of the child nodes by clicking on user handles. To achieve this, we utilize a method to filter the parent ID from the data source and dynamically modify the diagram’s data source.

//initialise diagram

<DiagramComponent id="diagram" ref={diagram => (diagramInstance = diagram)} width={"100%"} height={"700px"} 
   dataSourceSettings={{dataSourceSettings}} layout={{layout}}
   selectedItems={{
       constraints: SelectorConstraints.All | SelectorConstraints.UserHandle,
       userHandles: handle,
   }}
   onUserHandleMouseDown={(args) => {
       let selectedNode = diagramInstance.selectedItems.nodes[0];
       let id = (selectedNode.data).Id;
       renderLayout(id);
   }
   }>
   <Inject services={[DataBinding, HierarchicalTree, LayoutAnimation]} />
 </DiagramComponent>

The filter function takes an ID as a parameter and filters the data source dynamically based on the ID. It filters the data to include only those nodes whose ‘Manager’ property matches the provided ID. It utilizes a lookup object (idLookup) to store existing IDs and ensures that duplicate IDs are not added to the data source. The filtered data is then appended to the existing data source of the diagram, and the diagram is updated using the dataBind method.

//method to render child nodes
public renderLayout(id: string) {
 let datasource = diagramInstance.dataSourceSettings.dataSource.dataSource.json;
       let filteredData = diagramData.filter((item) => item.Manager === id);

       // Lookup object to store existing IDs
       const idLookup = {};
       datasource.forEach((item) => {
           idLookup[item.Id] = true;
       });

       filteredData = filteredData.filter((item) => !idLookup[item.Id]);

       Array.prototype.push.apply(datasource, filteredData);
       diagramInstance.dataSourceSettings.dataSource = new DataManager(datasource);
       diagramInstance.dataBind();
   }

this code facilitates the dynamic expansion and collapse of nodes in a Diagram based on user interaction with user handles, using a filtering mechanism to adjust the data source accordingly.

Refer to the working sample for additional details and implementation: Sample

Conclusion

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