I've searched around the net for a while on this subject, and found a thread or two here and there that were close to the same as the problem I'm having, but not quite.

My scenario is that my jqGrid does not look like the table that stores the data. The table is normalized, but my grid is showing an aggregate of the data. So each row in my jqGrid represents up to 13 rows of data in the normalized table.

So, when I'm editing a “row” in the grid on the client side, I'm really potentially editing 13 rows of data in the table itself. My problem is that I need IDs for each of those table rows. So, after toying around with some other ideas, I finally decided on pulling down the IDs as part of my grid row data, and then I would just hide the ID columns from the user. This would appear to be a fine solution except that the hidden rows are not posting when I edit a grid row in-line.

For example, my jqGrid might contain:

column1 column2ID(hidden) column2 column3ID(hidden) column3
someVal