[Solved] How to expose current MVC Grid filter

[Ron]

In my latest project, I have created a new MVC page that has a grid and details within the grid.  

I have enabled filtering, paging, and sorting.  I have no problems with paging and sorting, but the filtering was new since most of my ASPX pages had a filter section, that would then re-bind the grid with a ajax callback.  So the grid itself had no idea of the filter criteria.  This worked great, but now we are in need to make the filtering more dynamic based on the user requirements, and I have been able to do so with the .Filterable() setting built-in with the MVC-grid.  However, I need to be able to show this filter criteria to the end user.  

I know that the user can click the filter icon for each column, but that would require the user to click on nearly every column to see if a filter is or is not applied to the column.  What I would like to do is pass a simple string or json object that I can reference in the "OnDataBound" client event.

Thanks.

[Alexander Valchev]

Hello Russell,

 You could use client-side filter method for this purpose. It filters the contents of the grid based on a string expression. Please have in mind that JavaScript function is available only if filtering is enabled and if the Required JavaScript files are manually included, you need to make sure that telerik.grid.filtering.js has been included.
 
I hope this information helps.

Greetings,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team