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Missing and eroneous Documentation

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Missing and eroneous Documentation

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January 19, 2016 at 6:05 pm #124699

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I have spent a very frustrating day attempting to get grid export/import working only to find by googling StackOverflow answers that you made incompatible changes to the grid unload and in version 4.8 that you have failed to document in the main javascript wiki pages.

The only reference to these changes appears to be in http://guriddo.net/?p=123585 which is not included in the Upgrading section of the Wiki

From that page I also find that you have introduced new methods savestate and loadstate which might actually serve my needs bettter than import/export except that I can find no documentation of what is saved and where other than the demo code.

THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH – Developers are not mind readers and can not be expected to trawl through unlinked pages to find information that SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN THE PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION.
There is no point you writing new functions if you don’t tell developers how to use them!

Even after updating my code to take account of your undocumented changes Import is still not working failing with

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: expected property name or &#039;}&#039; at line 1 column 2 of the JSON data

b?b.toString():b})},parse:function(str){return JSON.parse(str,function(key,value...

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: expected property name or '}' at line 1 column 2 of the JSON data

b?b.toString():b})},parse:function(str){return JSON.parse(str,function(key,value...

The data I am trying to import has come straight out of jqExportGrid and I cant see any obvious errors
{grid:{"url":"genJSON.jim","height":"auto","page":1,"rowNum":100000,"rowTotal":null,"records":2,"pager":"#pager","pgbuttons":true,"pginput":true,"colModel":[{"name":"sel","label":"Sel","width":20,"sortable":false,"search":false,"formatter":"checkbox","formatoptions":{"disabled":false},"title":true,"lso":"","hidden":false,"widthOrg":20,"resizable":true,"stype":"text"},{"name":"fname","label":"File Name","width":300,"sorttype":"text","searchoptions":{"sopt":["cn","bw","ew"]},"title":true,"lso":"","hidden":false,"widthOrg":300,"resizable":true,"sortable":true,"search":true,"stype":"text"},...

The code I am using to export import is:

   $(&#039;#load&#039;).button().enable()
   .click(function() {
        $.jgrid.jqGridImport(&quot;#filelist&quot;, {imptype: &quot;jsonstring&quot;,impstring: dirgrid});
        console.log(&quot;reload grid&quot;);
       });

   $(&#039;#save&#039;).button().enable()
   .click(function() {
           dirgrid = jQuery(&quot;#filelist&quot;).jqGrid(&#039;jqGridExport&#039;, {exptype: &quot;jsonstring&quot;,root: &quot;grid&quot;});

           colmodel = jQuery(&quot;#filelist&quot;).jqGrid(&#039;getGridParam&#039;, &#039;colModel&#039;);
           console.log(dirgrid);
       });
   $(&#039;#empty&#039;).button().enable()
   .click(function() {
      emptygrid = $.jgrid.gridUnload(&quot;#filelist&quot;);
      console.log(&quot;empty grid&quot;);
       });

$('#load').button().enable()

.click(function() {

$.jgrid.jqGridImport("#filelist", {imptype: "jsonstring",impstring: dirgrid});

console.log("reload grid");

});

$('#save').button().enable()

.click(function() {

dirgrid = jQuery("#filelist").jqGrid('jqGridExport', {exptype: "jsonstring",root: "grid"});

colmodel = jQuery("#filelist").jqGrid('getGridParam', 'colModel');

console.log(dirgrid);

});

$('#empty').button().enable()

.click(function() {

emptygrid = $.jgrid.gridUnload("#filelist");

console.log("empty grid");

});

MymsMan

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January 20, 2016 at 3:35 pm #124707

guriddo.support
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Hello,

Thank you for this post. It remember us to make the new docs available as soon as possible.

This is really problem and we hope it will be solved in the near future.

Which version of jqGrid is used?

Due to formatting issues it is difficult for me to get the string you have posted here.

Can you please prepare a small demo (with data) and send it to us or use jsfiddle for this purpose.

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Will

Guriddo Support Team

January 21, 2016 at 8:21 pm #124713

kgrogers
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MymsMan:

I’ve been a customer of their php suite for the past three years or so and I have had the exact same complaint as you regarding their documentation, and I’ve been getting the same promise, that “we know it’s out of date/incomplete and we will have it fixed/updated very soon”.

At this point I doubt that they will ever have decent documentation.

January 25, 2016 at 7:11 pm #124739

MymsMan
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kgrogers wrote:

MymsMan:

I’ve been a customer of their php suite for the past three years or so and I have had the exact same complaint as you regarding their documentation, and I’ve been getting the same promise, that “we know it’s out of date/incomplete and we will have it fixed/updated very soon”.

At this point I doubt that they will ever have decent documentation.

Poor documentation damages Gurrido as much as it annoys customers.

They have to spend time on these forums explaining what should be obvious from the documentation and if it is not obvious that the product supports a function people will look for alternative products.

There is no point building a better mousetrap if no can find it or understand how to use it!

MymsMan
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