Yii2 how to set custom value for checkbox in gridview widget

In Yii2, while you use gridview widget to display your table data, for performing any operation on the record by selecting the checkbox, gridview assign the value of the first column retrieved from your the result set.

But you need to set some different value to the checkbox, so to do that you can use the below code

GridView::widget([
	'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
	'filterModel' => $searchModel,
	'columns' => [
		['class' => 'yii\grid\SerialColumn'],
		[
			'class' => '\kartik\grid\CheckboxColumn',
			'checkboxOptions' => function($model, $key, $index, $widget) {
				return ["value" => $model['id']]; // this can be substituted with any column value of your result data
			},
		],
		'name',
		['class' => 'yii\grid\ActionColumn'],
	],
]);

instead of the default one

GridView::widget([
	'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
	'filterModel' => $searchModel,
	'columns' => [
		['class' => 'yii\grid\SerialColumn'],
		[
			'class' => '\kartik\grid\CheckboxColumn',
			'mergeHeader'=>false
		],
		'name',
		['class' => 'yii\grid\ActionColumn'],
	],
]);

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