def saveSettings(self, settings):
        """
        Saves the data for this tree to the inputed xml entry.
        
        :param      xml | <xml.etree.ElementTree.Element>
        
        :return     <bool> success
        """
        # save order data
        settings.setValue('headerState', wrapVariant(str(self.header().saveState().toBase64())))
        settings.setValue('sortColumn', wrapVariant(str(self.sortColumn())))
        settings.setValue('sortOrder', wrapVariant(str(int(self.sortOrder()))))
        settings.setValue('sortingEnabled', wrapVariant(str(self.isSortingEnabled())))