Remembering grid page on return from elsewhere

[Tomica]

I am relatively new to AJAX design patterns. I have a grid which usually shows multiple pages, as a simple publication catalog.

Let's say the user navigates to page 5 using the standard control, and then clicks a templated column entry that contains a hyperlink to a publication detail page.

Using the browser's Back button returns to the same grid, same data, but resets to showing the first page of results. I think this is expected because the paging is done on the client and disappears once the page is left via the hyperlink.

I have set the scroll bars for the grid, and enabled maintain position options, so if I return to the page, the proper grid page is displayed.

So, is there a way to get these in sync? Note that I have set a fixed client scrolling size, enabled saving of viewstate, etc.

As a test, I have set the selected page index as an IIS session variable, and then reset the grid upon return, but this seems like a NON-best practice, if you know what I mean.

Also note that my question is not at all related to browser history with the Back button, as far as I can tell, that has no relevance here.

[Mira]

Hello Tom,

I have followed your scenario and prepared a sample project for you demonstrating how the desired functionality can be implemented. You can find it attached to this message.
In it the SEO paging of the grid is enabled and the paging is handled using query strings.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Mira
the Telerik team

[Tomica]

I had missed the SEO option because the site is private, no bots invited.

I see that the query string approach works, but it seems to also defeat the Ajax functionality on grid paging.