title: Is there a way to get the column number by column name in jqgrid
body: <p>I tried to access the rowObject in custom formatter function by column name but it didn't give any values. I have tried this with both JSON and XML data type .</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to get the column number by column name in jqgrid.</p>
  
  <pre><code>function Draw_Link ( cellvalue , options , rowObject )
   { 
    return "&lt;a href='someurl.php?col_name="+rowobject.col_name+"'&gt;"+cellvalue+"&lt;/a&gt;";
   }
  </code></pre>