On the admin/content/trees/%node pages (re-order and edit trees), unpubilshed nodes of trees do not show up, although they are part of the trees.
I traced this issue to a bug in core with function menu_tree_check_access(). This function only selects node that have `status=1`.
function trees_menu_subtrees_data($item) in trees.module calls the above function to filter nodes by access, which prevents the listing of unpublished nodes.
I have submitted a patch for this at http://drupal.org/node/460408#comment-2872008. Hope it makes it!
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Comment #1
girishmuraly commentedAlso related to the above issue is that it is impossible to add child nodes to a parent node that is unbublished in a 'trees'.
In other words, when adding a new page - node/add/page - if the parent item is unpublished, you cannot add the page you are creating to it.
Comment #2
domidc commented