JQGrid Programmatically Select Grid Row

Solution 1:

Because you use loadonce:true, then you prepare the data on the server. On the server side you can decide which row must be selected. On the server side you can also easy calculate on which page will be the selected row. The id of selected row and the selected page you can for example include as a part of the userdata. So the data sent from the server could looks like following:

{
    "total": 5,
    "page": 1,
    "records": 107,
    "rows": [
        ...
    ],
    "userdata": {
        "page": 3,
        "selId": 24 
    }
}

Inside of loadComplete you can do about following

loadComplete: function(data) {
    if (jQuery("#list").getGridParam('datatype') === "json") {
        // data.userdata is the same as jQuery("#list").getGridParam('userData');
        var userdata = jQuery("#list").getGridParam('userData');
        var curPage = jQuery("#list").getGridParam('page'); // is always 1
        if (curPage !== userdata.page) {
            setTimeout(function(){
                jQuery("#list").setGridParam(
                    { page: userdata.page }).trigger("reloadGrid");
                jQuery("#list").setSelection (userdata.selId, true);
            },100);
        }
        else {
            jQuery("#list").setSelection (userdata.selId, true);
        }
    }
}

A working examples you can see on http://www.ok-soft-gmbh.com/jqGrid/DataToSelect.htm and http://www.ok-soft-gmbh.com/jqGrid/DataToMultiSelect.htm.

UPDATE: Free jqGrid supports multiPageSelection:true option strarting with the version 4.10.0. The option allows to set selection of multiple rows in the grid very easy (and it works very quickly, because it set selection state directly during creating the body of the grid). See the answer and the demo and the readme to 4.10.0.