in jqgrid, is there anyway i can bring up the Multi columns filter GUI by clicking on a button outside of the grid

is there anyway to programatically launch the Advance multi select gui with a button click or so开发者_如何学Cme external event using jquery. I want to add an icon at the top of the Gui to allow people to filter as people keep missing it in the status bar at the bottom of the grid.

Yes it is possible (see documentation). The code is

var pSearch = {multipleSearch:true,overlay:false /* any parameters */}
$("#list").jqGrid("searchGrid",pSearch);

The code which will be executed by jqGrid if one click on the search button on the navigator is the same.