You need to search the tree. The aciTree library is aciTree .
I .searchId trying to make the .searchId method .searchId http://acoderinsights.ro/source/aciTree/documentation.html#.searchId
The problem is that the method is not looking for child branches, although the dock says that it should. Here is the code:
function searchNodesTree() { var api = $('#tree-categories').aciTree('api'), options = { success: function (item, options) { console.log(item); option = { success: function (item, options) {}, fail: function (item, options) {} }; api.check(item, option) }, fail: function (item, options) {console.log('fail')}, id: '83657/83710' }; checked = api.searchId(true, true , options); }