Yes there is way to that.
use getGridParam() without any name.

This will return all the state of the grid – i.e – the entry parameters of the grid. Save this in cookie and use this in options array

Something like
parm_grid = {…} // here are all the grid parameters

if( cookie_does not exists) {
$(“#mygrid”).jqGrid(param_grid);
} else {
$(“#mygrid”).jqGrid(cookie_here);
}

Regards
Tony

Maybe you should get the cookie value and put in options array. If you have firebug you can see what is the cookie value.

Regards

lou said:

I tried this out but seem to be missing a step. For the line:

$(’#mygrid’).jqGrid(cookie_here);

is there anything I need to do when retrieving the values from the cookie? I get “[object Object]” returned and the grid doesn’t load.

One missing step is that you need to serialize the grid parameters before putting them in the cookie, and then deserialize when you get the cookie back. JSON woul d be a good choice (or base-64 encoded json).

But trying to save the entire param structure isnt going to work very well. Are you going to save your callbacks in the cookie? Its doable, but probably not what you want – if you fix a bug in the callbacks on your website, anyone who has the old ones saved in a cookie will still get the buggy versions. Even excluding functions – what if you change your colModel? You wouldnt want the whole thing saved away in your cookie…

So its probably better to pick and choose the values you want to save. Eg you may want to save the column order, column visibility, column widths, sort column, sort order etc. Particularly since cookies are limited to 4k – and on IE6 there is a limit of 4k for all cookies belonging to a page.

Mark