Maybe if you reored the call you will have the neded result i.e. cal getGridParam before remapColumns.

Regards

Tony

sortable: {

        update: function(perm) {

            if (perm) {  

                $("#grid").jqGrid("remapColumns", perm, true);

                var colModels = $("#grid").getGridParam("colModel");

            }

        }

    }

but I keep on getting the same column order. Why is this?

Thank you very much!  That's exactly what I wanted.

PhilM

The "options" object (if provided) lets you override any of the usual sortable options (see documentation at jquery-ui website). The "update" function (if provided) gets called right after the columns are re-ordered, and gets passed the permutation that was used (the colModel has already been updated, and reflects the new order - the permutation just lets you know exactly what was done).

As a simplification, if all you want is to catch the update event, you can just do

Mark

Look at sortableColumns method in grid.jqueryui.js

You can add your own options via sortable.options options in the grid. Here you can define all available optins for sortable UI widget - if I understand right

Best Regards

Tony

Thanks for the quick response.  I'm afraid I wasn't very clear in my original question.

I was aware of the remapColumns method.  However, what I was looking for was more of an event that would fire when the user moved a column using the drag and drop method.  I wanted to either set a flag in my program so that I would know I need to save the new column order or enable a button to alert the user that they needed to save the new order.

I've looked at the remapColumns method again and it appears to just reorder the columns.  Is there more to it than that?

Thanks!

PhilM

Yes you can use remapColumns parameter - you can get it via getGridParam method.

The index is the original position the value is the new one.

Regards

Tony

Is there any way to know if a column has been moved using the sortable option?

Thanks!

Phil M

UPDATE:

I did get this to work using the following code:

jQuery('#gview_gridId').bind('sortstop', function(event, ui) {alert('here');});

If you have a better way I'm certainly open to it!

Thanks!