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Kendo UI Cookbook

You're reading from   Kendo UI Cookbook Over 50 recipes to help you rapidly build rich and dynamic user interfaces for web and mobile platforms.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980000
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Ganatra Sagar Ganatra
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Sagar Ganatra
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Kendo UI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. The Kendo UI Application Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. The Kendo UI Grid 3. Kendo UI TreeView 4. Kendo UI Editor 5. Kendo UI PanelBar 6. Kendo UI File Uploader 7. Kendo UI Window 8. Kendo UI Mobile Framework 9. Kendo UI Mobile Widgets 10. Kendo UI DataViz 11. Kendo UI DataViz – Advance Charting Index

Creating hierarchical structural diagrams using layouts


In this recipe, we will take a look at building hierarchical structural diagrams or tree-like diagrams using the layout option in kendoDiagram. The hierarchical structure can be represented in the JSON format, and it can be used as a DataSource object when building the diagram.

How to do it…

Let's create a hierarchical structure in the JSON format, which can then be used as a DataSource object for building the tree diagram:

var data = [
  {
    "designation": "CEO",
    "name": "Mitchell Johnson",
    "manages": [
      {
        "designation": "Vice President",
        "name": "Smith Cooper",
        "manages": [
          {
            "designation": "Director",
            "name": "Andrew Walker"
          },
          {
            "designation": "Director",
            "name": "Robert Thompson"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "designation": "Vice President",
        "name": "Harris Jones",
        "manages": [
    ...
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