Question

I am making a jqgrid using datatype local – a json array returned from the server.

jQuery("#my_table").jqGrid(
                        { datatype: "local", 
                          colNames: ['ID', 'Name','Status', 'Date'],
                          colModel:[ {name:'id',index:'id', width:50, sorttype:"int"}, 
                                     {name:'name',index:'name', sorttype:"string"}, 
                                     {name:'status',index:'status', width:50, sorttype:"string"}, 
                                     {name:'date',index:'date', width:120, align:"left",sorttype:"date"} ], 
                          data: result,
                          ...});

However, one of the columns – status – is represented as numbers.

I would like to display this data as the respective strings. For example ‘Active’ for status = 1 and ‘Inactive’ for status = 0.

Is it possible to do this directly in jqgrid, for example as additional colModel parameter or jqgrid method?
I have read through the documentation of jqgrid and failed to notice way of addressing this problem.

I don’t want to change the data returned from the server, as I don’t see any point in passing redundant information.

I would also prefer if I don’t have to manipulate the result array in javascript directly as I don’t see point in traversing the array 2 times (once to change the status and the second for jqgrid loading).

Answer 1

You can use formatter: “select”:

{name:'status',index:'status', width:50, 
    formatter:'select', editoptions: {value:'0:Inactive;1:Active'}}