I need to perform a search action on a jqgrid that has local data but the values for the query would be coming from another ui element in our application not the jqgrid toolbar s search dialog nor header filter ux.
I looked at the api and did not see any way to hook into the search/filter action programmatically. Is there a way to do this? I found some info on search templates for predefined searchs is there a way to run a search template from the grid api so it performs the filter.