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Also, on a certain level of the hierarchy, how would the users reorder peer items on the same level (under the same parent item). Currently it seems to only allow you to move and item to another parent and then add the item to the end of the list of other child items.

The PRO version supports three different drag-n-drop modes

            move as child

            move as sibling

            complex ( combine previous both)

The standard version supports only "move as child" mode

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