isDirty not registering

[angelahlp]

I've set up a grid that has the autoCompleteEditor from the demos. When I change a value in the form isDirty is not true? Any help would be appreciated. Some snippets of code I'm using are below. I don't know if dataIndx has anything to do with it in the colModel - but if I add it, the value no longer displays in the grid.

    //define custom editors
    var autoCompleteEditor = function (ui) {
        //debugger;
        var $cell = ui.$cell,
            rowData = ui.rowData,
            dataIndx = ui.dataIndx,
            width = ui.column.width,
            cls = ui.cls;
        var dc = $.trim(rowData[dataIndx]);
      var userindex = '';
      switch (dataIndx) {
         case 2:
            userindex = arr1;
             break;
         case 3:
            userindex = arr2;
            break;
      }
      
        var $inp = $("<input type='text' name='" + userindex + "' class='" + cls + " pq-ac-editor' />")
            .width(width - 6)
            .appendTo($cell)
            .val(dc);
 
        $inp.autocomplete({
            source: (userindex),
            minLength: 0
        }).focus(function () {
            //open the autocomplete upon focus
            $(this).data("autocomplete").search($(this).val());
        });
    }
 
JSON data
{"COLUMNS":["RESOURCEID","RESOURCENAME","SIMULATORNAME","SIMULATORGROUP"],"DATA":[[624," Ambulance 502 Bravo (A502B)",null,"Federal Response","Fire Department Unit"],[594,"AFD Foam Unit",null,"Fire","Fire Department Unit"]...

      
        colModel: [
            { title: "Resource ID", dataType: "integer",  editable: false },
            { title: "Resource Name", width: 150, dataType: "string",
                validations: [
                    { type: 'minLen', value: 1, msg: "Required" },
                    { type: 'maxLen', value: 255, msg: "length should be <= 255" }
                ]
            },
         { title: "Simulator", width: 150,
               editor: {
                   type: autoCompleteEditor
               }
          },
          { title: "Simulator Group", width: 150,
               editor: {
                   type: autoCompleteEditor
               }
          }
        ],

[paramvir]

You need to set primary key for isDirty to work.

http://paramquery.com/pro/api#option-dataModel-recIndx

BTW why are you setting name = userindex which is equal to "" in autoCompleteEditor?  name should be equal to dataIndx.

You should better be using JSON data for this example e.g., data: [ { key: value, key2, value2 }....] where key & key2 are dataIndx for first and second column.

[angelahlp]

Thanks for your help! I was hoping for pqgrid to accept the JSON format I was sending as it is what ColdFusion sends as its standard... I took your advice and am trying to manually create the JSON string to send to the grid so that I can send it as key/value pairs... but now I can't get it to accept it. I've tried sending the JSON string in many formats from my CF CFC - this is the last attempt ( but also tried with "data:... ", etc.. Any Help is appreciated   

[{resourceid: 624, resourcename: ' Ambulance 502 Bravo (A502B)'},{resourceid: 594, resourcename: 'AFD Foam Unit'},{resourceid: 593, resourcename: 'AFD HazMat Trailer'},{resourceid: 596, resourcename: 'AFD Rehab Bus'},{resourceid: 628, resourcename: 'Air 512 '},{resourceid: 513, resourcename: 'Alexandria Police Car 1'},{resourceid: 514, resourcename: 'Alexandria Police Car 2'},{resourceid: 515, resourcename: 'Alexandria Police Car 3'},{resourceid: 516, resourcename: 'Alexandria Police Car 4'},{resourceid: 517, resourcename: 'Alexandria Police Car 4'} ]

the code that accepts it as data is:

 dataModel: {               
            dataType: "JSON",
            location: "remote",
            recIndx: "resourceid",
         url: "/cfc/myfunctions.cfc?method=getResources",
            getData: function (response) {
                return { data: response };
            }
        },

[paramvir]

Did you add matching dataIndx in column definitions of colModel

For your data it should be

 colModel: [
            { title: "Resource ID", dataType: "integer",  editable: false, dataIndx: 'resourceid' },
            { title: "Resource Name", width: 150, dataType: "string", dataIndx: 'resourcename',
                validations: [
                    { type: 'minLen', value: 1, msg: "Required" },
                    { type: 'maxLen', value: 255, msg: "length should be <= 255" }
                ]
            }]

[angelahlp]

I have tried this. What I'm getting is a character in each row in the resource id field from the JSON string.

resourceid resourcename
{
r
e
s
o
....

[angelahlp]

I finally got this working on my own--- thanks for the input.