Is the pagination suppose to work automagically or do I have to add an event for each of the first, next, last, previous buttons and provide a url that will submit a form and fetch the data.
jqGrid automatically append Url from “url” option of jqGrid with additional parameters “page”, “rows”, “sidx”, “sord” and sometimes more depend on the context, so the request to server looks like myurl.php?page=1&rows=10&sidx=myindex&sord=asc (where myurl.php is like “fundreports/TransmittedLoan.action” in your case). Your server should of cause send back corresponding data based on this additional parameters. Searching of data works in the same way.
For more information read /jqgridwiki and example of PHP server code on /jqgridwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:first_grid).