Manually updating the grid: Ajax

[jessenaiman]

The grid loads correctly for paging, but fails when we try to manually update the grid after a search is performed.

Is there an alternative that works better, but still allows client side searching?

Here's our code:

<%
     GridPagerStyles pagerStyles = GridPagerStyles.NextPreviousAndNumeric;%>
     <%=
     Html.Telerik().Grid<ExternalContactModel>()
        .Name("Contacts")
                .Columns(columns =>
                {
                    columns.Bound(c => c.AllStarContactId)
                        .ClientTemplate("<input type='radio' class='sourceSelector' name='<#= AllStarContactId #>' checked='checked' disabled='true' value='<#= AllStarContactId #>'  />").Title("").Width(50);
                    columns.Bound(p => p.Name).Title("Name");
                    columns.Bound(p => p.Email).Title("Email");
                    columns.Bound(p => p.Source).Title("Source").Width(65);
                })
                .DataKeys(keys => keys.Add(c => c.Id))
                .DataBinding(dataBinding => dataBinding.Ajax().Select("_ContactList", "EmployeeSettings"))
                         .Groupable(settings => settings.Groups(groups =>
                         {
                             groups.Add(o => o.Name);
                         }))
                .Pageable(paging=>paging.Style(pagerStyles))
                .Scrollable(p => p.Height(400))


    %>

function GetFilteredContacts() {
        var query = $('#SearchBox').val();
        $.post('/EmployeeSettings/Search',
                { q: query },
                function (data) {
                    $('#Contacts').data('tGrid').dataBind(data.data);
                    $('#Contacts').data('tGrid').total = data.data.length;
                    $('#Contacts').data('tGrid').updatePager();
                });
    }

After further inspection it looks like the grouping is being thrown off. However if I look at the javascript object I can see that it is still set.

I've solved my problem following the steps in this post