Question

I am using jqgrid advanced search(Client side search). Is there a way how I can exclude few rows from searching. That is I want to display those rows irrespective of search criteria. I know that we can exclude column by giving search : false in the colmodel option. Please help.

Answer 1

I am not sure why you need such behavior. Nevertheless if you know which rows which you want exclude it means that you can formulate an additional searching filter which exclude unneeded rows. You can use onSearch callback of searching options to modify the filters property of postData before the filtering will be started.

See here an example of modification. You can add additional group to the filter (see the documentation) to implement filtering of the rows which you need to exclude.