My First Grid

====== HOW TO jqGrid common solutions ====== ==== Allow FireFox to work with RTL (Right To Left) languages ==== jqGrid fully supports RTL in FireFox versions 3.x and Internet Explorer versions >=6 The default settings in FireFox are not compatible with RTL. In order to change this: - In the url bar in FireFox type about:config and confirm the alert dialog. - In the Find bar type layout.scrollbar.side - Double click on it and change the value from 0 to 1 RTL support is available from version 3.6 and up ==== Configuring jqGrid to use only the new API ==== This should be done in the installation procedure following these steps:







My First Grid
  










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This line should be after the language file and before the jqGrid JS file New jqGrid API is available from version 3.6 and up ==== Client side sorting, but server side paging ==== In order to have this we should define two events in the grid - loadComplete and onPaging. Below is the code how can be this achieved


jQuery("#gridid").jqGrid({
...
datatype: 'json', // can be xml
loadComplete : function () {
   jQuery("#gridid").jqGrid('setGridParam',{datatype:'local'});
},
onPaging : function(which_button) {
   jQuery("#gridid").jqGrid('setGridParam',{datatype:'json'});
},
...
});

In order local sorting to work properly a sorttype parameter in colModel should be set