jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid - Topic: Custom client side sorting

tony on Custom client side sorting

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:49:42 +0300

Hello,

I'm thinking about custom defined sort function. Will see how to do this, but I do not promise if this will be in the next release.

Best Regards

Tony

Doogal on Custom client side sorting

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:02:53 +0300

Thanks Tony, although that's not quite what I need. Say my column contains '12 High Street', '1 High Street', 'The House, High Street', 'Other Place, High Street', I want to sort the first two as numbers and sort the last two as strings. If I could define my own sort algorithm this would be possible. Time to have a hack around in the code I guess

tony on Custom client side sorting

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:31:13 +0200

Hello,

Very interesting.

I never try this, but you can use the onSortCol event not to stop the sorting, but rather to change the sorttype of the column, something like this:

onSortCol : function(name, iCol, sortOrder) {

if(name=='myname') {

if(some_condition) {

$(this).jqGrid('setColProp','name',{sorttype:'int'});

} else {

$(this).jqGrid('setColProp','name',{sorttype:'text'});

}

Regards

Tony

Doogal on Custom client side sorting

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:21:13 +0200

I have a column that contains addresses which may or may not start with a number. So in some cases I want to sort the column numerically and in other cases sort it textually. In the documentation I see an onSortCol event, which says "If this event return 'stop' the sort processing is stopped and you can define your own custom sorting" which looks like exactly what I need. Question is how do I plug in my own sorting algorithm?