tim said:

Whats is the event you are using to call the function ?

tim

Tim, and Tony, your comments pushed me in the right direction.  My usage of the userdata/userData (Tony seems strange naming but maybe that is your convention) is correct and is:

afterComplete:function(){ var theIndex= $('#list').getGridParam('userData'); $("#index").html(theIndex.index);}

I then put that code in the options for edit, add and delete and the index <div> in the page is updated with a revised number based on the revised grid.  Here is the working example if anyone wants to see it:

http://billhogsett.com/deadloc...../login.php

Use username: demo1

       password: demo59

The index will not show until there are 5 golf rounds in the grid and right now there is only 1.  I'll add others soon.

Thanks for the help.

Bill

If yiou call this immediate after the jqGrid - it will not work. Use gridComplete event for this purpose.

Regards

Tony

tim

In looking through the posts on this forum, I see lots of help and lots of repeating questions from newbies like me.  Sorry.

I want to access userdata and put it in a <div>.  Right now I just want to get the data into an alert.

I am using xml to feed the data and the relevant portion (I think) looks like this:

<rows>
<page/>
<total>5</total>
<records>49</records>
<userdata name="index">15.0</userdata>
−
<row id="108">
<cell>10/01/08</cell>
<cell>91</cell>
<cell>67.6</cell>
<cell>111</cell>
<cell>23.8</cell>
<cell>Capitol Hill--The Senator</cell>
<cell>White</cell>
<cell/>
</row>

With the row information repeating

In my grid I have this:

var hi = $('#list').getGridParam('userData'); alert(hi.index);

The alert pops when the page is loaded and contains "undefined" and nothing else.

firebug reports:

$t is undefined

(function($){$.jgrid=$.jgrid||{};$.exten...urn}return c.p.userData[b]}})})(jQuery);

I have looked at the docs here:

http://www.secondpersonplural.ca/jqgriddocs/_2ej16ksnu.htm

And earlier messages on this forum (including the earlier  userdata: once again thread)

I am not sure if the xml and javascript shoud be userdata or userData or even if the capitlazation matters.  Maybe the:

var hi = $('#list').getGridParam('userData'); alert(hi.index);

needs to be defined as a function itself.

Help please.

Bill