Question

We have a grid with datatype json.

We have the following custom formatter:

function opsFormatter (cellvalue, options, rowObject){
    '<a title=MA href=javascript:showDialog(' + rowObject[5] + ')>MA<a>' + '&nbsp;&nbsp;';
}

Instead of rowObject[5] is there any object notation where we can specify the actual column name (“account”)? Ie: rowObject.account.

This is the grid definition:

$("#grid-pos").jqGrid({
    colNames:['Product', 'Type','Expiry', 'Put Call', 'Strike', 'Account','Long','Short', 'Open Qty', 'LTD', 'Operations'],
    colModel :[
               {name:'product', index:'product', width:75, sortable:false},
               {name:'type', index:'type', width:50, align:'right', sortable:false},
               {name:'expiry', index:'expiry', width:60, align:'right',stype:'select', searchoptions:{dataUrl:'expiry_select.htm'}, sortable:false},
               {name:'putCall', index:'putCall', width:65, sortable:false},
               {name:'strike', index:'strike', sorttype: 'float', width:70, sortable:false},
               {name:'account', index:'account', width:70, sortable:false},
               {name:'long', index:'long', width:55, align:'right', sortable:false},
               {name:'short', index:'short', width:55, align:'right', sortable:false},
               {name: 'openQty', index:'openQty', width:80, align:'center', formatter:closeoutFormatter, sortable:false},
               {name:'LTD', index:'LTD', width:65, align:'right', sortable:false},
               {index:'operations', width:105, title:false, align: 'center', formatter:opsFormatter, sortable:false}
               ],
               pager: '#div-pos-pager',
               caption: 'Positions'
});  

??

Answer 1

It seems for me absolute correct behavior. The value of the parameter rowObject is object having properties with the same names as defined in the ‘name’ property of the colModel. The property account is one from there. I suppose that the misunderstanding come from the following part of the documentation of the custom formatter:

rowObject – is a row data represented
in the format determined from datatype
option. … If we have datatype:
json/jsonstring – the rowObject is
array, provided according to the rules
from jsonReader

Probably the word array follows to misunderstanding. In JavaScript rowObject.account can be used as rowObject["account"], but one can’t use rowObject[5] to access the account property of rowObject. It is just not clear written sentence in the documentation. If you are a native English speaker you can reformulate the text so that it will has no misunderstandings. The documentation is wiki and any person can change any text.