Interesting: implementing jquery autoComplete with jqgrid without overriding the exciting searchOptions - jquery-ui

Question

Oleg - are you here???
I am using jqGrid, were i set in colModel my searchoption according to the type
Like this:
var columnModel = [{ name: 'ID', index: 'ID', sortable: true,searchoptions: { sopt: ['gt']}},
{ name: 'FirstName', index: 'FirstName', sortable: true, searchoptions: { sopt: ['cn']} },
{ name: 'LastName', index: 'LastName', sortable: true ,searchoptions: { sopt: ['ge']}}
];
Now after i load the grid i want to use the fallowing code in order to add auticomplete to the search box of the grid:
for (var i = 0; i < columnModel.length; i++) {
var nameCol = columnModel[i].name;
myGrid.jqGrid('setColProp', nameCol,
{
searchoptions: {
dataInit: function (elem) {
$(elem).autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
autoFillSearch(request, response, $(elem).attr('name'));
},
minLength: 1
});
}
}
});
}
myGrid.jqGrid('filterToolbar', { stringResult: true, searchOnEnter: true });
the autoFillSearch function is like this:
function autoFillSearch(request, response, columnToSearchName) {
var paramters = {
colName: columnToSearchName,
prefixText: request.term
};
$.ajax({
url: './ViewNQueryData.asmx/AutoCompleteSearch',
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
data: JSON.stringify(paramters),
success: function (data) {
response($.each(data.d, function (index, value) {
return {
label: value,
value: index
}
}));
}
});
}
The problem is that new the colModels have the search option that were created the second time and dont have my specific "sopt" i want them to have....
I there any way of changing the second searchoption so that it will get the "sopt" option from the original colMadel?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

the answer for this is:
for (var i = 0; i < columnModel.length; i++) {
var nameCol = columnModel[i].name;
var soptOption = columnModel[i].searchoptions.sopt;
myGrid.jqGrid('setColProp', nameCol,
{
searchoptions: {
sopt: soptOption,
dataInit: function (elem) {
$(elem).autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
autoFillSearch(request, response, $(elem).attr('name'));
},
minLength: 1
});
}
}
});
}