jqgrid: Field required by add-form but not required by edit-form?

Question

an user has a password and it is required by add a user, but on edit-action a password is not required, but can be changed.

Is it possible to do this with jqgrid?

Answer 1

You can change the value of required property of the editrules inside of beforeShowForm (see here). You can use setColProp for example to do this. For example to set required: true in the 'password' you can call

$("#grid").jqGrid('setColProp', 'password', {editrules: {required: true}});

inside of beforeShowForm.