IMHO there are two ways.

1. define all the possible columns in colModel and then use hideCol/showCol method to hide or show certain columns.

2. Use GridUnload and GridImport to do this. Also in this case the server should return the columnConfiguration. See docs for this. (The documaentatin should be more detailed for this purpose, but you can download the examples and see what is needed to do this)

Best Regards

Tony

I'd like to use jqgrid in a project which is used to manage permission and roles. to display the setting, I'd like to have a row for each permission configured in the system. a permission may give access to anything for any role configured. the grid should look like:

permission | role 1 | role 2 | role 3 | role 4

________________________________

permi. 1        yes       no       yes       no

________________________________

permi. 2        no        no       yes      yes

The problem is now that I'd like to add columns (roles) depending on the answer I get from the server. How may I do this to achieve the following after a request?

permission | role 1 | role 2 | role 3 | role 4 | role 5 | role 6

___________________________________________

permi. 1        yes       no       yes       no       no        yes

___________________________________________

permi. 2        no        no       yes      yes       no        yes

Thanks for your answer.

michael