Tree view poor usability

Question

I am working on a huge software product (Java/C#) that manages and classifies the data in a tree view. The tree view can sometime become quite large and difficult to manage. I have looked around for better ways of presenting the data to users and replace the Tree view default presenter, I found the following: http://ripul.blogspot.com/2005/10/tree-view-removal-surgery_112919819961257081.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/03/trees-treeviews-and-ui.html

The question is more for usability experts but since the software is written in Java/C# there might be other tree view replacements I don't know of. Any ideas from the community?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If it fits your model, consider replacing it with a grouped-list implementation.

I would suggest you to try this open-source project called ObjectListView (Note: I didn't write it - I'm just a happy user).

It offers a flexible set of list implementations, as well as a tree-list implementation if you still need a multilevel hierarchy (see below).

You can bind anything enumerable to it and/or use data-binding.

If you have massive data to display you can use one of its virtualized implementations.

Give it a go.

Answer 2

I have tried this one and honestly did not see any better options http://www.dotnetperls.com/treeview