Sort not working with jqGrid

Question

I\'ve been having problems getting jqGrid to sort. I\'d like to preferable do this sorting on the client, but I\'m also willing to make a new call to the database to get th

Answer 1

loadonce only works with the predefined loaders. If you use datatype as function you should set datatype:local manually after the first loading of the grid with the custom function.

Try something like this:

datatype : function (){
    $.ajax({
    …
    complete :function (…){
                …
                $("#mygrid").setGridParam({datatype:'local'});
        }
    })
},