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Here’s the XML as returned by Firebug:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Report>	
<User>
<ID>2204</ID>
<User>Doe, Jane</User>
<CourseName>Test Course Alpha</CourseName>
<ProjectName>Test Project Alpha</ProjectName>
<TotalRows>6</TotalRows>
</User>
<User>
<ID>2302</ID>
<User>Doe, Jane</User>
<CourseName>Test Course Gamma</CourseName>
<ProjectName>Test Project Beta</ProjectName>
<TotalRows>6</TotalRows>
</User>
<User>
<ID>2284</ID>
<User>Doh, John</User>
<CourseName>Test Course Beta</CourseName>
<ProjectName>Test Project Alpha</ProjectName>
<TotalRows>6</TotalRows>
</User>
<User>
<ID>2329</ID>
<User>Smith, Barb</User>
<CourseName>Test Course Epsilon</CourseName>
<ProjectName>Test Project Beta</ProjectName>
<TotalRows>6</TotalRows>
</User>
<User>
<ID>2330</ID>
<User>Symthe, Adele</User>
<CourseName>Test Course Iota</CourseName>
<ProjectName>Test Project Beta</ProjectName>
<TotalRows>6</TotalRows>
</User>
</Report>

Nice catch on the comma, we’ve run into that a few times ourselves. I’m doing all my testing in FF13, but I’ve removed it anyway.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Thanks again for your help Peter, being able to search will be very useful.

[shimmorilParticipant]

As I noted in my post, I have tried setting the type on the datafields, and it didnt have any effect.

As an aside, having search functionality for the forums would be very handy. I wanted to check if the issue had previously been reported, but I wasn’t going to manually check through each thread.

[shimmorilParticipant]

After further testing I was able to get the drag and drop to work, it’s just very… sticky? It might be the test environment I have for IE7. Thanks for the response.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Thanks Peter.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Regarding the Dropdown Button closing when filtering, do you have any ETA on a fix or a workaround? We’re looking at deploying this functionality next week and as is it’s not useable.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Nevermind, user error

[shimmorilParticipant]

Thanks again Peter.

It looks like we will be removing the loader completely due to some other odd behaviour, but I did find a way to fix my original issue. If I call:
$('#dropdown').jqxDropDownButton('show'); $('#dropdown').jqxDropDownButton('hide');
Immediately after creating the grid, it makes the loader appear correctly in the dropdown grid instead of randomly on the page. Depending on how slowly the page loads you may or may not see the grid opening and closing, but it does move the loader into the correct area.

[shimmorilParticipant]

I suppose that’s what I get for trusting the internet. Thanks.

I’m sure you’ve gathered from my various threads, but having a way to enable/disabled the loader, or even have it appear automatically on paging/sorting/filtering would be amazing. Since we are potentially loading huge amounts of data we want to give the user feedback that something is actually happening, and prevent them from making more requests until the current one is finished.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Can someone from the team confirm that the jqxGrid option loadui: ‘block’ is no longer available? I found reference to it on another site, and it seems from the description that I would do exactly what I need. Unfortunately adding it to my grid code didn’t make any difference.

loadui
This option controls what to do when an ajax operation is in progress.
disable – disables the jqGrid progress indicator. This way you can use your own indicator.
enable (default) – shows the text set in the loadtext property (default value is Loading…) in the center of the grid.
block – displays the text set in the loadtext property and blocks all actions in the grid until the ajax request completes. Note that this disables paging, sorting and all actions on toolbar, if any.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Thanks Peter.

Another issue: when my page first loads, the loading icon is shown in the upper left of the page (see screenshot below). Since it’s a dropdown grid, there’s really no reason for it to be shown at all. How can I hide it?

This is probably related to another thread I started that hasn’t gotten an official response yet either: http://www.jqwidgets.com/community/topic/force-display-of-loading-image/#post-5347

Also, you never mentioned a fix for the issue where the grid closes when being filtered.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Got another one – is there a way to set a default message in the dropdown when the page first loads (ie. when nothing has been selected)? Obviously we would prefer to show something like “Please select…” rather than an empty box.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Thanks for the tip jqWizard. The async: true didn’t work – it allows the user to click grid options while the data is loading which is pretty much the opposite of what we need. The funny thing is there appears to be a loading icon when the grid is processing, it’s just hidden under the grid display itself. If you run a grid w/ 5 or less rows you should be able to see it peeking out from underneath. If there was a way to bring it to the front that would be perfect.

I took at look at your links, and the “Please wait” one is looking good for our situation. It would be nice if there was a way to do it right in the grid though, since the JQuery option locks out the whole page, and also triggers on some other AJAX calls we’re doing (which don’t need the loading icon).

[shimmorilParticipant]

One other note – when I tried to bind your example to my data, the only thing in the combobox is the text ‘jqxItem’.

[shimmorilParticipant]

Thanks Peter. I was able to get your example working on a fresh page, but when I move the code over to my existing page I continue to get the error. I’ll have to go through and comment stuff out to see what the issue is.

Regarding the paging, do you have any suggestions for dealing w/ report filters that can have huge amounts of data? In our case the page is a user report. At the top of the page the person running the report can set various filters, including a dropdown containing all users (ie. to see data for only that particular user). As you can imagine, loading a large amount of data into the dropdown is really slowing down our systems.

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