How to make jqgrid only works (show data) when we are searching?

Question

I use jqgrid with toolbar search. I want jqgrid to show empty grid when on load and show empty grid when i reset/clean toolbar search. So i want dedicate this jqgrid just for searching.

How to make jqgrid only works (show data) when we are searching?

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Eka

Answer 1

You can use certain event to do this.

Initially your grid maybe will need to have datatype : local and empty data parameter i.e

jqGrid({
    ...
    datatype: 'local',
    data : [],
    ...
});

When calling the toolbar filter use the two events - beforeClear and beforeSearch - see the docs for this purpose.

In beforeSearch event set datatype to 'json' and eventually the url, in beforeClear set the datatype again to local