jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

Hi All,

I'm fairly new to jqGrid.   I have a simple question and it can be applied to the input types example in row editing seciton in this url http://www.triarand.com/blog/j..... 

There seems to be a disconnect in my understanding of how editable rows with selects work with in the grid.  

In the grid colModel they defines the ship column as an edittype:"select" and the

editoptions:{value: "FE:FedEx;IN:InTime;TN:TNT;AR:ARAMEX"}. 

later in the example the dataset is defined as below and loaded to the grid over an iterator and addRowData.

In the ship column, the value preceding the colon is the value (or code/id), i.e. "FE"  and the value after the colon is the label(the visible part),i.e. "FedEx". 

var mydata2 = [
{id:"12345",name:"Desktop Computer",note:"note",stock:"Yes",ship:"FedEx"},
{id:"23456",name:"Laptop",note:"Long text ",stock:"Yes",ship:"InTime"},
{id:"34567",name:"LCD Monitor",note:"note3",stock:"Yes",ship:"TNT"},
{id:"45678",name:"Speakers",note:"note",stock:"No",ship:"ARAMEX"},
{id:"56789",name:"Laser Printer",note:"note2",stock:"Yes",ship:"FedEx"},
{id:"67890",name:"Play Station",note:"note3",stock:"No", ship:"FedEx"},
{id:"76543",name:"Mobile Telephone",note:"note",stock:"Yes",ship:"ARAMEX"},
{id:"87654",name:"Server",note:"note2",stock:"Yes",ship:"TNT"},
{id:"98765",name:"Matrix Printer",note:"note3",stock:"No", ship:"FedEx"}
];

Shouldn't the ship variable above be the code, i.e. "FE"?  But if I change the values for ship in the dataset they aren't translated textually in the cell to the label name corresponding to that value in the select options.  For example if my dataset contains "FE" for ship shouldn't "FedEx" be displayed in the cell?  If I edit the cell and change the value in the select, it displays the selected label in the cell, i.e. "FedEX", but when you do a getRowData, the cell values for the ship column all contain the label name not the actual value from the select, i.e. "FE". 

Am I missing something?  Is there some special code I need to write to handle this?  Has anyone else worked around this?

Hope this makes sense.

Thank you in Advance

carmine