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Is it possible to display two editable text boxes in one cell of the JqGrid

Sorry, but the description of the problem in the comment to your question still don't contain any examples which shows why you have to display two text boxes in one cell. Moreover you still not answered on the question: which editing mode you use?
The problem is the following: if you use some software product you can use a lot of its standard features. In the case the implementation will be short and you can make very nice solution writing very small code. If you one the other side would try just follow your original imagination of how all should looks like you can spend many time and to write a lot of code. As the result from the point of view of the user who will work with your site all will be almost the same as in the simple solution. Is it really required?
If you would use form editing for example you can easy display additional textboxes, checkboxes or textareas from hidden columns. jqGrid automatically create controls for all hidden columns which have editable: true property. So what you need to do in the case is just to show hidden field in the form with respect of $.show (like in the answer).

I used the same concept in "trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html#";
There in the Row editing --> Custom edit, JqGrid demo examples, its displaying three buttons on a one cell.

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How to achieve customize templates option in jqgrid

I am having a grid whose configuration is placed in server for purely customizing sake where User can decide which columns he need to view and save the template.
Now if I want to have this feature present in grid whose configuration is also maintained in client side. How do I achieve it.
Pardon me if I m not clear or being a noob, I am still learning jqgrid .
Your question is too common formulated. I would recommend you to read the answer, this one and this one which shows how the user could save the state of grid and to hide some columns, to change there width or order the columns. If I understand your question correctly, then the answers will provide you the main ideas for the implementation of your requirements. You can just try the demo, make some changes in the grid and then close the demo and visit the demo once more. You will see that the hidden columns stay hidden, the order and the width of columns will stay persistent and so on.

Kendo UI grid - different templates for Edit and Create

We are using Kendo UI grid to display some records. The requirements need us to have a column (Say "File Name")shown as a text box when the user clicks on "Edit".
However, when user clicks on the "Create" button in the toolbar, the same column should be replaced with a File Select control which will allow the user to select a file from his machine. The other columns remain the same.
I have already tried searching through Stack Overflow as well as the Kendo UI Grid forums, but to no avail.
Is there any way to achieve this? Any pointers will be of great help.
Regards,
Nikhil
Using different editor templates for create/edit is not supported. You need to use the edit event of the Grid to change that text input to file input with JavaScript. To distinguish between edit and create you can use the isNew() method of the model.
i.e.
edit:function(e){
if(e.model.isNew()){
//replacement logic
}
}
Similar question is covered here.

JqGrid column chooser with column header

I have two questions about column chooser. firs one is that I'm using header grouping for my grid, for example I have a Display header group with two columns of Type and Size, and also another header Group which name is Storage with two sub columns of Type and size. when I using columnChooser it shows: Type Size Type Size. is there any way to prepend the column header name to them? I also named these columns DS_Size DS_Type ,.... in colModel. is there any way to use these columns colModel name instead of colNames?
my second question is that I already using erichynds multiselect (see the link) for my search section and it have conflict with the one which jqGrid use (see also). how can I rename erichynds multiselect plugin to something else? I didn't find any $.fn. in it's source code
I actually asked three questions :P but the first two are one :D
Thank you for reading my questions :)
The answer on your main question you will find in the documentation of jqGrid:
Column Chooser is not compatible with the header grouping
I wrote many parts of the Header Grouping implementation and I know the code of columnChooser. So I know how the code of columnChooser can be modified to include support of Header Grouping. The main problem is that it's relatively much work just to remove the restriction. jqGrid is free open source product. Who are ready to invest his time to remove such limitations? I spend very much my time to help other people on the stackoverflow, but I have to feed my family :-). If you really need such feature you can implement the feature yourself. The most important information which you will need to modify the columnCooser you will find in the answer.
Now about the last part of your question: "conflicts" between who multiselect widgets. Simple look in the list of changes of Eric Hynds jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget (see here) shows that the plugin is alive. On the other side another one (see here) used in columnChooser will be not changed. Nevertheless it works and can be used later. Which "conflicts" exactly you has? In the old version of Eric Hynds jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget it was used the same widget name "ui.multiselect" which was conflict. Many later versions use "ech.multiselect" name (see here). So I don't know which conflicts exactly you mean. Probebly you should just get the last version of the code.
At the end of my answer I would recommend you to read the answer where I suggested some modifications to columnChooser which allows to improve the visibility and to make the dialog of Column Chooser really resizable. One can use just $.jgrid.extend({columnChooser : function(opts) {...}}); to overwrite the original version of columnChooser to the new one.

jqgrid - dynamically load different colModel edittypes(Text box and check box) in two rows of same column

I'm doing some R&D work on displaying different colModel edittypes(Text box and check box) in two rows of the same column in a JqGrid. Because I need to display different edit-types for a same column depending on the back-end database values. Its possible to display different edit-types for different columns. Please help me on this to carry out my R&D work.
You don't explained which editing mode you use. The solution of the problem can be different depend on the editing mode.
I would you recommend to change the properties of the column, for example the edittype value, directly before the editing of the row be started.
In case of form editing you can change the properties inside of call . In the answer are shown how to show of hide some column property inside of beforeShowForm callback. Another answer or this one are examples of the usage beforeInitData which seems be the best for your case. Inside of beforeInitData you can change any properties of colModel before the form will be constructed.
Typical usage of inline editing consist from the calling of editRow inside of onSelectRow or inside of ondblClickRow. So one can use setColProp method for example to change column properties before there will be used. See examples here and here.

DataGrid column header with a text box for filtering

I'm having a bit of problems creating a DataGrid with a header label AND a text box (at this point I'm not even entirely sure this is possible).
Here's what I want to do:
I need to dynamically create a table (the number of columns can and will change, so the grid needs to be created dynamically and cannot use bindings specified in the XAML code or similar). All the columns however will always be text columns.
Because those will be text columns, I'd like to add a text box to each header to enable simple filtering of the data in the DataGrid. I don't want to add extra text fields to OTHER parts of the Silverlight page, as I want to keep things as compact as possible. Also, since the number of columns is dynamic, adding a large number of text boxes above the DataGrid wouldn't look too good either. ;)
Also, if possible, I'd like to keep a label in each header to display the names of the columns as well.
So far I've tried adding the a TextBox as the Header of a DataGridTextBoxColumn but when I do that in a very simple Silverlight project, the whole DataGrid won't show up.
Please help.
EDIT:
I saw the answer to this question: placing a text box inside the silverlight data grid column header
However, the answer itself didn't give me much to go on (the example is too short, and I'm not too good with XAML yet), and the code on CodePlex just adds extra fields to the Silverlight page. None of it tackles the problem of dynamically creating the DataGrid.
OK, here's what I did that solved my issue...
I had to use a Style to achieve the functionality of having an extra text box inside each column header and filling out the Tag property of each thus created TextBox to later find out which column has been changed.

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