doubleforte, how much data are you trying to search through client-side; i.e. how many rows and how does the client-side search/filter affect performance of having to load all data? I'm just curious as I always hit the database for every request as a rule because it is hard to say how a list may grow in size over time and I'm not sure doing client-side filtering outweights the performance hit of loading all the data?

Tony, I think this should be determined by the server-side code. If we start adding too many options to jqGrid it is going to become too large and performance will become increasingly hard to tune from your end. I cannot see a situation where a user should decide whether or not a search option should be case sensitive or not, for example address, name, etc should always be case insensitive due to the nature of the Internet today, most folks texting today do not care about case. Anyway, doubleforte, not saying your request has no value but we need to always keep in mind we all use this GREAT plugin and want to keep it lean and mean

Thank you for atking the tmie to ellaborate Mike. For a moment there I thought I have fallen of the bus so to speak 🙂 Makes perfect sense.

Just as a note, I have 5 grids on one page in a particluar instance with no issues. When you select a row on the first grid (onSelectRow) it calls the other 4 grids and loads their data. Each one of these grids suports editing and require lookup data (drop downs) in the form edit mode so I get the data within each grids declaration with the jQuery ajax call and am sure to use the

async: false

property, which ensures that each grid is loaded without overlapping sessions or threads.

On another note Darren, I keep the previous value of the number of rows per page on my server (Mvc app) and when it posts back for any reason I check to see if the number of rows per page has chnaged, and if so, send them back to page 1. However, I was using a sessions variable MyjqGridRowsPerPage and since I have many grids on the same page will need to create a different one for every grid, seems like a lot of work, how did you handle this situation with the user changing the number of rows per page? Tony do you have any suggestions?