bkeszler said:

Tony, I was just coming back to post my success story and I found your reply.  Thanks for the response!  I'm going to try your ideas to try and learn more about jQuery and jqGrid.

I finally got it working by using the setCell function to change the value in the cell.  My custom formatter creates an onclick event for the checkbox, which passes the rowid, column name, and current cell value to a function that handles the information however I need.

Works great!  If anyone would like to see the code, just let me know and I'll post it (after cleaning it up a bit).

Hello bkeszler,

i have same type of requiement . could you please me the code

I finally got it working by using the setCell function to change the value in the cell.  My custom formatter creates an onclick event for the checkbox, which passes the rowid, column name, and current cell value to a function that handles the information however I need.

Works great!  If anyone would like to see the code, just let me know and I'll post it (after cleaning it up a bit).

The problem is not related to jqGrid, but in a way how the "value" of checkbox is obtained.

$("#mycheckbox").val()  ===> alway true or somthing else

$("#mycheckbox").attr("checked") => Now this is your code to check whnever the value is checked or not. – it can be true or false depending on checking

Regards

Tony

What I want is a jqGrid with multiple checkboxes per row.  For discussion purposes, let's say it's a security admin tool with 9 columns.  Column 1 is the username and columns 2 through 9 are different security roles.  The colNames are 'Username', 'R1', 'R2', ... 'R8'.  Columns 2 through 9 simply have a checkbox indicating if that user has access to that role.  Clicking the checkbox will send an AJAX request to the server.

I've created the grid 2 different ways, but can't get either one working.  My most recent attempt has a custom formatter that sets up each of the checkboxes with an onclick event.

I can't seem to get the value of the checkbox, only the value that was originally loaded into the cell.  So if a checkbox was loaded as "true" and a check mark is shown, I always get the cell value of "true" even if the checkbox was just unchecked.

I also can't seem to determine which checkbox was clicked.  I can determine the row (and the unique username) but I can't determine which column the clicked checkbox is in.

Any help is appreciated.  I'm going to keep poking around on these forums and on the web.