Hello,
 
As promised we have done a lot (almost everything) of work on these problems.
 
1. All info dialogs when a error from the server or validation error occur are positioned near to the cell.
2. After closing the dialog and the grid parameter restoreCellonFail is set to false the cursor is focused on the field where the error occur.
3. we have defined new event validationCell. We already have defined errorCell event. When a server error occur or your afterSubmit event return false you can use the errorCell to show your own dialog. When validation error occur you can use validationCell event to show your own dialog. Parameter passed to this event are Input element, error message, indexRow and indexCol.
 
You can test this if you download from GitHub the new build. After unzipping use tje jquery.jqGrid.min.js from js subdirectory.
 
Just to know if the info (error) dialog is on the user can pres escape to close the dialog.
 

Kind Regards,
Will

Hello,

As far as I understand if you have defined your own validation error, then it is a good idea at end of this procedure to do:

validationCell : function(element, msg, iRow, iCol) {
// do something here
…
element.focus();
}

This will focus the cell and after esc or other action it should be closed.
We will try to investigate this situation.

The process is a little bit complex for errorCell, since we do not pass here the element.

For inline edit mode when valiadation fail the dialog should be positioned below the edited row. We test this and it works.

The problem is when a server error occur – in this case the dialog is not positioned – we will fix this.

For inline edit when error from server you can use errorfunc passed as parameter of the editRow or saveRow.

We will include similar event on validation error in inline edit

Kind Regards,
Will