[Solved] Ability to set the filter / sort with a string, the exact one that is passed back in querystring

[Connor]

I am trying to set the filter and sort back to what the user has sorted / filtered on the last time they visited the page.  To accomplish this I had the action with the grid take in the page/sort/filter as params, then store them in the session variable.  When the user comes back to the page with no params or default params, I pull the page/sort/filter strings from the session variable.  That is as far as I can get because as far as I can tell there is no way for me to pass in the strings that the Telerik grid returns back into the mvc grid, it only takes linq.  I would prefer not having to create my own parser for these strings, since the Telerik grid can already read the string because it is the exact string it puts in the query string.

Is there any way / hack I can use to set the Filterable and Sortable functions with a string?

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Connor,

 No, the Filterable and Sortable do not accept strings. However if you add those strings to the query string (by performing a redirect) the grid will read them out and filter/sort itself properly.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team