I have the same problem. In my App is search by tags. So, when user clicks some tag I run:

$('#list').setGridParam({ postData: {filters: '{”groupOp”:”AND”,”rules”:[{“field”:”tags”,”op”:”cn”,”data”:”' + tag + '”}]}', searchcloud: true, search:true, _search:true} }).trigger(”reloadGrid”);

but I still get :

asc

I use jqGrid 3.6, and tried. Could you give me any suggestion ?

Thanks in advance.