jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid - Topic: Customizing available options for searchfield and searchoperator r http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/customizing-available-options-for-searchfield-and-searchoperator-r Simple:Press Version 5.7.5.3 johnpino1 on Customizing available options for searchfield and searchoperator r http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/customizing-available-options-for-searchfield-and-searchoperator-r#p24170 Help http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/customizing-available-options-for-searchfield-and-searchoperator-r#p24170 Ok answered my own question,

Addthe following to the column definition in the colModel property of the grid:

search: false

to disallow searching on a certain column or:

searchoptions: { sopt: ['eq', 'cn', 'othersearchoptionshere']}

to limit the search options on that column.

 $("#dataTypeOutputsTable").jqGrid({
        caption: "Outputs",
        colNames: ["Id", "Name", "Attributes", "Memo", "Valid", "Promoted", "Value", "TimeStamp"],
        colModel: [
                { name: "outputid", index: "outputid", width: 30, searchoptions: { sopt: ['eq', 'cn']} },
                { align: "center", name: "attributes", index: "attributes", width: 50, search: false },

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:55:54 +0300 johnpino1 on Customizing available options for searchfield and searchoperator r http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/customizing-available-options-for-searchfield-and-searchoperator-r#p24169 Help http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page_id=393/help/customizing-available-options-for-searchfield-and-searchoperator-r#p24169 I've already implemented a jqgrid with an xml data source and the search button for cases where the operator is "eq" or "cn."  I don't really need/want the user to be able to search with other operators so I don't want them to show up in the search window drop down.  There are also certain fields or columns that I don't want the user to be able to select from when they click the search button.

This is all just the limit what I have to implement in the controller class.  Are there properties of the columns I should define in the javascript file that will not allow a search by them? Or are there things I have to add to or around this line?

jQuery("#dataTypeOutputsTable").jqGrid('navGrid', "#outputsPager", {edit: false, add: false, del: false });

Thanks for all of your help

John

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