Question

When I load my jqgrid I populate my filter toolbar select box the following way in the loadcomplete section:

$(".ui-search-toolbar").find("select").each(function (index, value) {
    getDropdowndata($(this).attr('NAME'));
});

The problem is that this code runs everytime the grid is reloaded. This causes the select box to fill up with multiple values when I by example click through several pages.

What I want is to run this code only the first time the grid is loaded.

Answer 1

The most simple solution is to have boolean variable and check if populate had been already done

var isPopulated = false;

...

function onLoadComplete(){
   if(!isPopulated){
      //your code here
      isPopulated = true;
   }
}