Setting the state hidden and visible with setGrid param will not work. You should always use setGridState with reloading the grid.

Best Regards

Tony

What I want to achieve is:

1. Grid starts out minimized

2. When somebody clicks a button on my page, I want to show the grid maximized and then have it do its loading thing.

3. The next time somebody clicks the button, it knows it's already maximized and then just triggers the reload of the data.

4. I want the cool animation for the minimize/maximize.

The issue I'm experiencing is:

1. If I set the grid state to visible programmatically, and then do .trigger("reloadGrid") it doesn't seem to do anything and the grid doesn't seem to load.

What I'm doing is:

I'm creating my grid with the hiddengrid property set to true so that my page starts out with the grid minimized. (hiddengrid: true)

Then I've got a method that looks like this:

function performMySearch() {

if ($("#mySearchResultsGrid").jqGrid('getGridParam', 'gridstate') == "hidden") {

$("#mySearchResultsGrid").jqGrid('setGridState','visible');

}

$("#mySearchResultsGrid").trigger("reloadGrid");

}

I appreciate any insights anyone might have.