title: Create a jqGrid link with just the id
body: <p>I <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1166076/html-link-column-in-jqgrid">can see</a> how to create a jqGrid link using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>colModel: [ {name:'myname', 
               formatter:'showlink', 
               formatoptions:{baseLinkUrl:'someurl.php', addParam: '&amp;action=edit'}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This creates a request like <code>/someurl.php?id=XX&amp;action=edit</code> and the display text will be the value of <code>myname</code>.</p>
  
  <p>But in our case we don't need the <code>myname</code> text - our display text will be hard coded.  We don't want to have to pass any additional data down in our JSON request - but it seems you need a JSON attribute for each column.  How can we have a link without the add'l JSON column?  </p>