Thanks:

I think what you meant was:

1) add a hidden column to the grid with the name "selected".

2) in the gridComplete function to the following:

          var rowIds = $("#places").getDataIDs ();
                    for( var i = 0; i<rowIds.length ; ++i)
                    {
                        var rowData = $("#places").getRowData( rowIds[i]);
                        if( rowData.selected  == "true")
                        {
                            $("#places").setSelection( rowIds[i]);
                        } 
                    }

It works like a charm.

Thanks,

Matthew

Use the undocumented

gridComplete event for this purpose.

It fires after all is done in the grid.

Best Regards

Tony

I am sorry, I was not clear.  What I want to be able to do is to load

data into the grid, (with Multi Select) and specifiy (at the time of load) in json ( for example),

that a particular row is selected. For example the json for each row would

look like this

 { id:"123454, "selected": "true", "cell":["I am a Selected..." etc.

I poked around the Json data load script, and I know pretty well where this would have to be called.  The call internal call to setSelection( ) seems to be failing at this point, ( this would seem to be the easiest way to handle this, while adding a "checked = checked to the dyanmically created checkbox.),

Anyway, if you can think of a possible shortcut to this,  and point me there I would be more than happy to implement and then share the code. 

Thanks again.  Sorry for the cryptic post previous to this.

Matthew

getGridParam('selrow')

Retur the currentlly selected row - null otherwise.

Best Regards

Tony

Looking at the rowdata method, it seems that there is no way to do this? 

Am I mistaken?

Matthew