Thank you for the recommendation and code provided. I will look this to be added in the next releases.

Thank you

Regards

Tony

If you have the distribution as a whole unit, you'll need to make the changes manually.

------------------------------------ grid.filter.patch below ---------------------------------------

--- grid.filter.js    2013-04-03 14:20:20.169886542 -0700
+++ gridsod.filter.js    2013-04-03 14:20:20.184888806 -0700
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
         errorcheck : true,
         showQuery : true,
         sopt : null,
+        soptDesc : null,
         ops : [
             {"name": "eq", "description": "equal", "operator":"="},
             {"name": "ne", "description": "not equal", "operator":"<>"},
@@ -396,7 +397,11 @@
                         if(so===0) {
                             rule.op = that.p.ops[ina].name;
                         }
-                        s += "<option value='"+that.p.ops[ina].name+"'>"+that.p.ops[ina].description+"</option>";
+                        if (cm.searchoptions.soptDesc && cm.searchoptions.soptDesc[that.p.ops[ina].name] != undefined) {
+                            s += "<option value='"+that.p.ops[ina].name+"'" +selected+">"+cm.searchoptions.soptDesc[that.p.ops[ina].name]+"</option>";
+                        } else {
+                            s += "<option value='"+that.p.ops[ina].name+"'>"+that.p.ops[ina].description+"</option>";
+                        }
                         so++;
                     }
                 }
@@ -492,7 +497,11 @@
                 ina = $.inArray(op[i],aoprs);
                 if(ina !== -1) {
                     selected = rule.op === that.p.ops[ina].name ? " selected='selected'" : "";
-                    str += "<option value='"+that.p.ops[ina].name+"'"+selected+">"+that.p.ops[ina].description+"</option>";
+                    if (cm.searchoptions.soptDesc && cm.searchoptions.soptDesc[this.p.ops[ina].name] != undefined) {
+                        str += "<option value='"+that.p.ops[ina].name+"'" +selected+">"+cm.searchoptions.soptDesc[this.p.ops[ina].name]+"</option>";
+                    } else {
+                        str += "<option value='"+that.p.ops[ina].name+"'"+selected+">"+that.p.ops[ina].description+"</option>";
+                    }
                 }
             }
             ruleOperatorSelect.append( str );

So I've searched google and this forum and haven't found an exact solution for this using jqGrid, but I've found similar questions.

(The closest I found was: http://stackoverflow.com/quest.....lumn-basis )

Basically I have a column model with customized searchoptions for a start date field.

colModel:[

{name:'User',index:'user.name', width:100},
{name:'StartDate',index:'user.start_date', width:55, formatter: doDateFormat,
          searchoptions:{
                                  sopt: ['eq', 'gt', 'lt'],
                                  dataInit:function(el){
                                      $(el).datepicker({dateFormat:'dd M yy'}).change(function(){$("#userlist")[0].triggerToolbar();});
                                  }
                           }
  }

]

When I use the custom search dialog, I want the filter for StartDate to have custom labels for the operators "equal", "greater", and "less".  Since the field is a date, I'd like to use "On", "After", and "Before".  I realize that these labels come from the jqGrid-local-en.js file, but changing it there would affect all of the fields including the "User" field and I don't want to modify these values globally.

Ideally I'd like to specify:

colModel:[

{name:'User',index:'user.name', width:100},
{name:'StartDate',index:'user.start_date', width:55, formatter: doDateFormat,
          searchoptions:{
                                  sopt: ['eq', 'gt', 'lt'],

                                  soptDesc: {eq:'On', gt:'After', lt:'Before'},
                                  dataInit:function(el){
                                      $(el).datepicker({dateFormat:'dd M yy'}).change(function(){$("#userlist")[0].triggerToolbar();});
                                  }
                           }
  }

]

And have only the StartDate filter operator values show up as "On/After/Before", leaving the User filter operator as "equal".

If there is an obvious way to make this work that I'm missing, forgive me for making this request. Otherwise, I've found a way to make this work by making a few minor changes to the grid.filter.js which I could provide if that's appropriate.

Thanks,

Jay