Two different edit form in jqgrid - jqgrid

Question

Is there a way to implement 2 different edit form in jqGrid. I mean one normal usual edit form and the other with a much lesser form field (customized). both in the same navGrid. say edit and editpartial. can anyone throw some light?? many thanks.

Answer 1

The buttons "Add" and "Edit" added by navGrid call both editGridRow method with different parameters as the second parameter (properties parameter). In case of usage navGrid called as
$("#grid").jqGrid("navGrid", "#pager", {parameters}, prmEdit, prmAdd);
then navGrid calls
$("#grid").jqGrid("editGridRow", rowid, prmEdit);
if the user click "Edit" button and calls
$("#grid").jqGrid("editGridRow", rowid, prmAdd);
if the user click "Add" button.
In the same way you can add new custom button to navigator with respect of navButtonAdd method. For example
$("#grid").jqGrid("navButtonAdd", "#pager", {
caption: ""/*"My Edit"*/,
buttonicon: "ui-icon-note", // some icon
title: "My edit",
onClickButton: function() {
var $self = $(this);
$self.jqGrid("editGridRow",
$self.jqGrid("getGridParam", "selrow"),
{ // some options
recreateForm: true
}
);
}
});
In the way you add one more Edit button. The only thing which you need do now is temporary changing of editable property of some columns before call of editGridRow and resetting it to original value after call of editGridRow. You can use setColProp method to simplify the work. For example if you want to make myColumn column editable you can use
$("#grid").jqGrid("navButtonAdd", "#pager", {
caption: ""/*"My Edit"*/,
buttonicon: "ui-icon-note", // some icon
title: "My edit",
onClickButton: function() {
var $self = $(this);
// make "myColumn" temporary editable
$self.jqGrid("setColProp", "myColumn", {editable: true});
$self.jqGrid("editGridRow",
$self.jqGrid("getGridParam", "selrow"),
{ // some options
recreateForm: true
}
);
// make "myColumn" back as non-editable
$self.jqGrid("setColProp", "myColumn", {editable: false});
}
});
I want to emphasize that usage of recreateForm: true option for all usage of editGridRow (inclusive navGrid) is very important. So I recommend you just change default value of the option:
$.extend($.jgrid.edit, { recreateForm: true });