jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

I am also stuck in same problem

 I am populating a jqgrid from my server, all the columns of particular table are not shown in grid. For example a user has name,his car name and address, but in grid i am only showing user name and car name. When i add or edit a user i need to add and edit the address too, so i cannot use on the fly form as it will show only name and car name.

I have been using a separate form to update the table and reloading the grid and it worked fine. Now i have a requirement that i can add multiple users from form, so i thought of using a jquery ui form dialoge.

jquery ui form dialoge don't update the underlying jqgrid

in dialoge i am writing

 var gridId = $("#gridId");

 alert(gridId);

 var myData = [{name:"neeraj"}, {carname:"toyota"}];

 $("gridId").jqGrid("addRowData", myData, "last");

alert(gridId.getGridParam('records'));

first alert gives me an [object Object] but second one gives undefined

I am calling dialoge from a normal button not jquery custom button

Yes i tried but without luck,  i have to change my approach to make a server call at closing of jquery ui dialoge and will refresh the the grid.