I have a grid, and it is populated from a value selected in a dropdownlist box.

I have everything working as it should…however.
The grid tries to populate itself as soon as it is created. Even if there is no url parameter specified.

I know you can use hiddengrid property, which will not populate the grid. However, it leaves the grid in a ‘closed’ state and the user has to ‘click’ the button to open the grid.

I don’t want the user to have to open the grid, I would like the grid to open if there is data, or let me make a call to open the grid.