That got it

Thank you so much

Rick

navGrid('pager', edit,add,del,search,refresh,

{}, // edit options here

{}, //  add options here

{}, //del options here

{}, // search options here

}

Refere to navgrid in docs

Tony

I dont want my own search button, I want to use the one in the navbar

so how do I change the sopt for the search using the inbuilt search button

Thanks

Rick

What Im saying is if I create a grid it works fine, it loads up the data and all I see is the grid

The user clicks on the search icon (find.gif) and the search window pops up., however it has all defaults in the sopt, I only need Begins With.

so when I change the searchGrid  sopt to 'bw' just after creating the grid, when the grid loads the search window also is displayed, so the user has to keep closing the popup window.

Is there a way to prevent this automatically displaying the search window when I change the sopts using the navbars find.gif icon? 

and images. Use FireBug to see if all is loaded ok.

In you second way you should define button (or href) to work that -

Something like

("#mybutton").click(function(){

$(”#qpGrid”).searchGrid({sopt:['bw']});

}

Regards

Tony

         $(document).ready(function(){
            $("#qpGrid").jqGrid({
               url:myurl,
               datatype: "json",....

               });
               $("#qpGrid").navGrid('#pager2',{edit:false,add:false,del:false,refresh:false,search:true});
           

However the search I only want Begins with so I add the following

                     $("#qpGrid").searchGrid({sopt:['bw']});

If I do this the search window gets automatically displayed when the jqgrid loads up with data.

Is there any way to stop this happening?

I only want the search window to display when the user clicks on the find icon in the nav bar. 

Thanks

Rick

Thanks

Rick