title: Is there any way to set the search options per column in jqGrid 3.4.4?
body: <p>So I'm using <a href="http://www.trirand.com/blog/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">jqGrid</a> with my mvc.net / Ling2Sql prototype site that I'm making and I've done the work to get jqGrids search functionality up and running.  Its pretty sweet actually, but since you cant search by >, >=, &lt; or &lt;= with strings, I wanted to setup the search options per column.</p>
  
  <p>I know I can set the overall search options for the table by doing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>jQuery("#search").searchGrid( {sopt:['cn','bw','eq','ne','lt','gt','ew']} ); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I want something on a per column basis, so the user maintains the ability to search >, >=, &lt; and &lt;= on int columns but not on string columns.</p>
  
  <p>On a whim I tried this and it didn't work</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;snip&gt;
  colNames:['Id', 'form2', 'form3'],
  colModel:[
   {name:'ID',    index:'FormID', width:20, sopt:['ne','lt']},
   {...},
   {...}
   ]
  &lt;snip&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm going to guess I'd have to dive fairly deep into jqGrid to add this functionality, but I just wanted to see if it wasn't an option already built in.</p>