you sir, are a genius ;)

this is what i ended up doing:

public class TreeEvents : IComponent
{
    public void Initialize()
    {
        TreeControllerBase.RootNodeRendering += TreeControllerBase_RootNodeRendering;
    }

    public void Terminate() { }

    void TreeControllerBase_RootNodeRendering(TreeControllerBase sender, TreeNodeRenderingEventArgs e)
    {
        if (sender.TreeAlias == "logViewer")
        {
            e.Node.CssClasses.Add("hide-section-tree");
        }
    }
}

the umbraco css does have a .hide class however adding it to the css classes for the node doesn't actually hide the item:

so i added my own css file with the following class:

.hide-section-tree {
    display: none !important;
}

and bingo, we have a winner!

the crazy thing is i swear i'd looked at that page a 100 times and not twigged that bit of code...

thanks again for the suggestion, have a good one ;)

jake

Brilliant - glad you were able to find a way to make it work. Looking forward to seeing what your updated logger does :)

O.

i've just finished the last items - the repo is available here:

https://github.com/ribsdigital/UmbLogExporter/tree/develop

it's a log viewer replacement which adds an export to excel function and a few other tweaks.

there's still a bit of testing to go but i think it should be releasable tomorrow ;)

Nice and great to see it's open source too. I'll check it out :) Great work.

h5yr!