Grid Column Default Sort Image Column Issue

[Vin]

I have a grid with OrderID and OrderDate. The sorting is done on the server. The initial load is sorted on the OrderID.

The grid gets the data in JSON format.
How do I specify that the sort field and direction are null then by default show the sort icon on OrderID and Default direction is ASC?

Thank you
Vin

[Andrii]

Interested in the same question: how to set  the default sorting for the grid (both on UI and on server datasource)?

[Maksym]

Found this question via search.
I also want to know the answer to this question: "How to specify default sorting order for grid with server side sorting and pagination"?

[Kyle]

I would like to know this as well. Specifically how to have the Kendo UI grid in a sorted started by default.

[Ernie]

Same here. I noticed that there are 3 states happening on the sortable columns (desc, asc, null). My issue is if I have been clicking on the column, and I'll go into the null state, I don't know where to get the sortfield name that just been clicked since its already null.  By the way, I'm doing server-side sorting. 

Any ideas?

[Ernie]

Ok, my issue is different I guess. There is an option in the sortable to disallow the null state:

sortable: { mode: "single", allowUnsort: false }

[Dave]

You can set the sort property on your dataSource to whatever you want.
For example:

	dataSource:
	{
		type: "json",
		:
		:
		sort: { field: "OrderID", dir: "asc"},
		:
		:
	}