Question

I’m controlling the colProp required value in the beforeShowForm function and its working fine. My problem is the formoptions:{elmprefix:"*"} does not take effect.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there another way to do it?
My code snippet is this

$grid2.jqGrid('navGrid', '#pager',
    { edit:true, add:true, del:true, search:false, view:true, cloneToTop:true},
    { // edit options  
        beforeShowForm: function(form) {   
            $("#list").setColProp('Done_Date',
                {editrules:{required:true}, formoptions:{elmprefix:"*"}});
            $("#list").setColProp('Outcome',
                {editrules:{required:true}, formoptions:{elmprefix:"*"}});      
        },     
        editCaption:"Edit Record",
        edittext:"Edit",
        closeOnEscape:true,
        savekey: [true,13],
        errorTextFormat:commonError,
        width:"550",
        reloadAfterSubmit:true,
        bottominfo:"Fields marked with (*) are required",
        top:"60",
        left:"70",
        closeAfterEdit:false
    },

Thanks in advance
Mark

Answer 1

The you should use beforeInitData instead of beforeShowForm to be able to change elmprefix setting on the fly during creating of the form. Additionally you should use recreateForm: true property.

I would recommend you to read the post which describes how to format the code inside of the question.