Folders inside a list.

Question

I have a list which contains Folders. When someone clicks on the folder he/she is taken inside the folder where they can only see the items which is inside that folder.

What I want to do is that I don't want to leave the parent list. So when someone clicks on a folder I want it to dynamically fold out the contents of the folder. 

How can I do such a thing?

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Answer 1

You have two options:

1. You can enable  "Show all items without folders" in Current View options.

2. Develop custom Web Part that will implement such behavior.

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Oleg

Answer 2

Clicking on show without folder would hide the hierarchy away.... 

my intention is to show all items with the hierarchy. So to display it like a tree structure where people can compress/expand the folders.

has anyone already done something like this in a custom webpart?

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Answer 3

I do not see any issue to put TreeView on Web Part http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d4fz6xk2(v=vs.80).aspx and populate data on demand when user will click on Expand Node http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.treeview.treenodepopulate.aspx

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Oleg