Hi,

I have the same problem.
I generate the XML response automatically and can not control the order of cell elements.

Need to identify each cell with the id defined in the colModel.

For example.
If I define the colModel as:

colModel: [

Hello,

I think you should define xmlReader and response so that there is no matter where is the cell.

Please check this

http://www.trirand.com/jqgridwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:retrieving_data#xml_data

from the beginning to the end.

If you configure the xmlReader with repeatitems set to false, then the order of the cells does not take into account

Best Regards

Tony