I am trying to plug the json data into multiple tabbed interface, and have it display different columns on each tab (which could be just a different link to jQuery initialization or some filter within jqGrid), but can't figure out how to do this.

Initial data will all be loaded at once (in 50+ columns) and I'll have it display about 10 columns per tab/section, but I'd rather not make another json call to fetch the data when switching between tabs, and was wondering if there is a way to just hide the columns I don't want to see on one tab, and then on the next one I hide the columns from the first tab and all other tabs and only show the data relevant to that tab without going through a json query?

Or even if I have to go through json, an easy suggestion/way to do that tab/data switching?