Does jqgrid support exporting to excel “ out of the box” or do i need to write some server side code?

Question

on this page in the release notes of jqgrid 3.7.2, i see:

Fix export url in export to excel method

but i dont see any other documention abou

Answer 1

Here's a walkthrough of how to add an "Export to Excel" button to your jqGrid, which will write to a real Excel file.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/784342/Export-data-from-jqGrid-into-a-real-Excel-file

(Note that this only works if you're using Visual Studio, as it uses the Microsoft OpenXML libraries.)