What's the best way to dynamically populate dropdown options in jqgrid advanced searching?
1) The first way: use "dataUrl" option of "searchoptions"
Disadvantage: when user add new criteria, and choose the attribute, dataUrl was posted to the server, when user add the same criteria again, dataUrl was posted to the server again, and with twice. very strange.
Advantage: the values user selected previously was there and not cleared.
2) The second way: use "dataInit" option of "searchoptions"
Disadvantage: the values user selected previously was cleared when adding new criteria(can not accepted, because it is not user-friendly, please refer url: the selected value was cleared in dropdown after add new criteria in jqgrid advanced searching)
Advantage: data was loaded into page when the page refreshed and only once.
3) the third way, use "value" option of "searchoptions"
but it's not dynamically, just hard-coded in page.
Could any one share the best practice about the issues. thanks.