How to hide a jqgrid column dynamically

Question

I am implementing jqgrid in my asp.net MVC web application.

In my grid i have two columns edit and delete. The delete should be visible only if the user is logged as admin .

How can we dynamically hide.show columns in jqgrid. I am having a session variable to check whether the logged in user is Admin or not.

I am accessing that variable in javascript. but, not sure how can i hide/show column in jqgrid

Please help..

Answer 1

Use this code,

jQuery("#list").jqGrid('hideCol',["colModel1_name","colModel2_name"]);
jQuery("#list").jqGrid('showCol',["colModel1_name","colModel2_name"]);

May this help you.

Answer 2

This one worked:

$("#list").hideCol("ColumnName")

Answer 3

Newer API

jQuery("#list").jqGrid('hideCol',["ColumnName","ColumnName2"]);

Older API

$("#list").hideCol("ColumnName")

Answer 4

This is not the best practice to use js to manage your security. You should not show this column on your server side!