Question

I have a jqGrid (using inline editing) with an autocomplete column. When the user selects a value from the autocomplete column, an event handler sets a value on another column, and also sets the value on the autocomplete column to something other than the label returned from the autocomplete source. The two column definitions (complete jsFiddle example here):

{
    name: 'cartoonId',
    index: 'cartoonId',
    width: 90,
    editable: false},
{
    name: 'cartoon',
    index: 'cartoon',
    width: 200,
    editable: true,
    edittype: 'text',
    editoptions: {
        dataInit: function(elem) {
            $(elem).autocomplete({
                source: autocompleteSource,
                select: function(event, ui){
                    var rowId = $("#inlineGrid").jqGrid('getGridParam', 'selrow');
                    if(ui.item){
                        $("#inlineGrid").jqGrid('setCell', rowId, 'cartoonId', ui.item.CartoonId);
                        $("#inlineGrid").jqGrid('setCell', rowId, 'cartoon', ui.item.Name);                            
                    }
                    return false;
                }
            });
        }
    }},

The problem is that whenever the user selects a value from the autocomplete, either by clicking it or using arrows and pressing the tab key, that cell is no longer editable, and the grid appears to lose focus entirely. If I comment out the line that sets the cartoon cell value, it behaves normally. Is there any way I can get around this behavior? I need the entire row to remain in edit mode, including the cartoon column, until the user completes the edit.

jqGrid 4.4.1
jQuery 1.7.2
jQuery UI 1.8.18

Answer 1

You should rename Name property of the items from the autocompleteSource to value because jQuery UI Autocomplete examines the label and value per default (see the documentation).

You can’t use setCell of the 'cartoon' column which is currently in the editing mode. You should remove return false; from select callback too. So the code could looks about the following

dataInit: function (elem) {
    $(elem).autocomplete({
        source: autocompleteSource,
        select: function (event, ui) {
            var rowId = $("#inlineGrid").jqGrid('getGridParam', 'selrow');
            if (ui.item) {
                $("#inlineGrid").jqGrid('setCell', rowId, 'cartoonId',
                    ui.item.CartoonId);
            }
        }
    });
}

See http://jsfiddle.net/27dLM/38/