Question

Is there any way of exporting JQGrid data to Excel/PDF. I am using SQL server 2008 R2 as database and WCF service for HTTP Request/response. Client is written using JavaScript and AJAX calls are made to interact with SQL database through WCF service.

Will ‘excelExport‘ function of jqgrid work?

Here is the code to collect Grid Data and store:

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function ExportExcel() {
    var mya=new Array();
    mya = $("#PrjBudgetGrid").getDataIDs();  // Get All IDs
    var data = $("#PrjBudgetGrid").getRowData(mya[0]);     // Get First row to get the labels
    var colNames=new Array(); 
    var ii=0;
    for (var i in data) {
        colNames[ii++] = i;
    }     // capture col names
    var html = "";
    for (i = 0; i < mya.length; i++) {
        data = $("#PrjBudgetGrid").getRowData(mya[i]); // get each row
        for (j = 0; j < colNames.length; j++) {
            html = html + data[colNames[j]] + "\t"; // output each column as tab delimited
        }
        html = html + "\n";  // output each row with end of line

    }
    html=html+"\n";  // end of line at the end
}

Answer 1

You can use the code from the answer or even better from another more recent answer. The part of the code which export data to Excel you can easy change to WCF code. See here an example how to use Stream as the output of WCF method.