Hi,

I am not sure i understand the question. Basically every column header has headerText, which you can specify either manually, or automatically - in that case the column (property) key becomes the header text. there is no extra data stored for every row. 

Would you like to pass extra data and associate it with every column header? In that case you can use jQuery's data() API, and associate this extra meta-data with every column header. Even though i don't think it's necessary to encode that in the DOM, provided that based on the columnKey, or columnIndex, you can always retrieve this extra metadata directly from your data structure. Your data structure may be something like this:

var dataSource = {

"Records": [

// array of records

{ ... }, {... } 

],

"ColumnMetadata": { < array of objects describing the columns metadata > }

}

then when you pass this to the grid, you only need to specify the responseDataKey: "Records" so that the grid knows it's not binding to the list of records directly ,but needs to evaluate the Records proprety in the JSON. other than that you can always refer to the dataSource.ColumnMetadata from anywhere in your app.

Let me know if this helps. Thanks,

Angel

datasource = "">vmrfj03.qad.com:16560/.../jsonBrowse.jsp

Json Output:

{"ColumnMetadata":[["Customer","Sort Name","Telephone","City","State","Postal Code","Region","Country","Bill To","Type","County","Added","Site","Currency"]],

"BrowseData":[["10-100","QMI - USA Division"," ","East Hanover","NJ","07950","US-E","USA - TAX PURPOSE"," ","INTC"," ",null,"10-100","USD"],["10-300","QMI - USA Division"," ","East Hanover","NJ","07950","US-E","USA - TAX PURPOSE"," ","INTC"," ",null,"10-300","USD"]]}