I want to display hierarchical data in the user interface in a treeview control.
The question is should the user has the freedom to define its first root node itself.
I do not care wether a tree has a root node to be a tree.
I just think about the advantage for the user having a pre-defined root node or not in the UI.
Do you see any disadvantage for the usability or that the user could be restricted from
certain posibilities having a pre-defined root node?
In my opinion the root node has this disadvantage:
- its just a stupid placeholder for nothing, just there so the children are there...
- it can usually not be deleted, thus I have to do extra checks...
- I have to think about a creative name for the root node
Do not need:
MySuperRootNode
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Totally fine should be:
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