The input of tabular data determines the content of the tree control, as well as the appearance of each object in the tree. As with other controls, to configure a drill-down, set substitutions, or execute a command when a user clicks a tree node, use the actionCommand property. As with other table-driven objects, the drillDownColumnSubs property can be configured to set substitutions to column values from the row in the table (attached to the valueTable property) that corresponds to the selected tree node.

After you attach your tabular data to the tree control valueTable property, specify the table format for the tree in the valueTableFormat property. The table format is determined by the format of the table you attach to the valueTable property. There are two table format options, each with their own requirements:

The default table format is row-leaf. The following are examples of the row-leaf and row-node table formats, which both produce the tree in the image that follows. Here is a row-leaf table:

Here is a row-node table:

Here is the tree control that both these tables produce:

After you configure the tree table format, you can optionally configure the tree control icons. See Configuring tree control icons.