jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Hi Tony,

I don't think I need to go to that extreme of exporting/importing the whole grid configuration. But I have now begun to explore your idea of using cookies.

All I'm really trying to do is "remember" the search criteria the user has entered via the popup mutisearch form - which appears to be stored in postData. I am now writing the properties of postData to cookies, so that during the beforeRequest event I check the value of _search. If its true I write the postData properties back to the cookies because I assume the user has just used the popup multisearch form again to issue a new search. The grid then continues to load the data correctly. I've also added code to the onPaging event to set the page properties

            $('#list').setGridParam({ page: parseInt(requestedPage) });
            $('#list').setGridParam({ postData: { page: parseInt(requestedPage)} });

and everything works correctly.

I still have another couple of issues. One thing I need to do is programmtically clear the grid of its search criteria. The first thing I do is remove the cookies. But then I need to reset the properties of postData so the grid will load without applying any search criteria. I've been calling RemoveSearchCriteri() but when beforeRequest is fired, postData doesn't have the values I've set.

    function RemoveSearchCriteria() {
        ClearCookies();
        $('#list').setGridParam({ postData: { _search : false} });
        $('#list').setGridParam({ postData: { filters : ""} });
        $('#list').trigger("reloadGrid");
    }

The second problem is that even though the search criteria is being posted to the server correctly, when I click on the search toolbar - the form is not populated with the search criteria - its obviously not looking at postData to populate the form - what does it look for?

Can you help please ?

Regards,

Simon

Tony,

I wonder if you can help - as I stated in the previous posts I'm quite close to achieving my goals of saving the search criteria (whether it be to cookies or server side). Essentially when using multisearch: true - i.e. the advanced search. I want to enter the search criteria - save this criteria to cookies, then when I return to the page, retrieve the search criteria from the cookies so that when the grid calls the server for data it passes the correct search parameters to the server. As stated above I have all of this working correctly.  My only problem now is how do I "repopulate" the advanced search form with the search criteria. So when the user clicks on the search button the correct search criteria is in the form. I've looked at jquery.searchfilter.js but I'm new to JavaScript and I just don't know what I should call (should it be the searchFilter function ?). I've been struggling with this for a few days now - but getting nowhere - can you help please. When other people have asked about this your response was to take a look at jquery.searchfilter.js.  Would it be possible for you to give a little example of how we might repopulate the advanced search form.

Regards,

Simon