I found the answer in one of the templates inside ng-grid.js. I was missing ng-input = "COL_FIELD"
<select ng-cell-input ng-class="'colt' + $index" ng-input="COL_FIELD" ng-model="COL_FIELD"> <option>nl</option> <option>fr</option> <option>en</option> </select>
Rob
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