Switcing to Kendo UI from Telerik Missing orderBy and filterBy

[JOHN]

We are converting an app from Telerik MVC to Kendo UI.  We have jQuery code on our grids to capture the current orderBy and filterBy parameters so we can pass them back to our controller.  The controller then creates an Excel download using those parameters.
However the orderBy and filterBy are now undefined in Kendo.  How do I retrieve those values?
    function onDataBound() {
        $('a.lnkDeal').each(function () {
            this.href = this.href.replace(/&/g, "%26");
        });
        var grid = $("#Deals").data('kendoGrid');
        // Get the export link as jQuery object       
        var $exportLink = $('#ExportToExcel');               
        // Get its 'href' attribute - the URL where it would navigate to       
        var href = $exportLink.attr('href');               
        // Update the 'orderBy' parameter with the grids' current sort state
        href = href.replace(/orderBy=([^&]*)/, 'orderBy=' + (grid.orderBy || '~'));
        // Update the 'filter' parameter with the grids' current filtering state       
        //href = href.replace(/filter=(.*)/, 'filter=' + (grid.filterBy || '~'));               
        // Update the 'href' attribute. Replace all ' with | to avoid security issue
        href = href.replace(/'/g, "|");
        $exportLink.attr('href', href);
    }

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi John,

 You can check the updated export to excel code library project and use the code from it in your project.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
Telerik