Question

I am using jqgrid with multiplegroup option true for search. My filter looks like the following:

{"groupOp":"OR",
"rules":[{"field":"Total_case","op":"eq","data":"29"}],
"groups":[{"groupOp":"AND",
"rules":[{"field":"Total_case","op":"eq","data":"2"},{"field":"percent","op":"eq","data":"100"}],
"groups":[]}]}

I have rows with both total case = 2 ,percent = 100 and total case = 29. Since outer condition is “OR” condition, I am expecting two rows. However it displays no record. What is wrong?

Answer 1

The question seems be duplicate from answer your previous question. I just wrote the answer on your original question where I confirmed that it’s a bug in the current version of jqGrid. As a workaround I suggested to modify requests having "groupOp":"OR" and both non-empty parts rules and groups so that the rules part will be inserted as new additional group inside of groups.

On the example which you posted one can first use jQuery.parseJSON to convert the JSON string postData.filters which you posted to the object form

{
    groupOp: "OR",
    rules: [
        {field: "Total_case", op: "eq", data: "29"}
    ],
    groups: [
        {
            groupOp: "AND",
            rules: [
                {field: "Total_case", op: "eq", data: "2"},
                {field: "percent", op: "eq", data: "100"}
            ],
            groups: []
        }
    ]
}

Then one could test that groupOp is “OR” and both rules and groups are non-empty arrays. In the case one can move the rules part inside of groups. In other words one could convert it to the following object

{
    groupOp: "OR",
    rules: [],
    groups: [
        {
            groupOp: "AND",
            rules: [
                {field: "Total_case", op: "eq", data: "2"},
                {field: "percent", op: "eq", data: "100"}
            ],
            groups: []
        }
        {
            groupOp: "AND",
            rules: [
                {field: "Total_case", op: "eq", data: "29"}
            ],
            groups: []
        }
    ]
}

At the end one can use JSON.stringify to convert the object back to JSON string and assign the results back to postData.filters.

UPDATED: I posted the pull request which describe the changes which will do jqGrid internally during processing of the filtering/searching request.

The demo uses the fix and it seems that all works correctly now.