I would like to try and avoid using cookies and store the information in a session, is there any method to return back the search parameters as part of the JSON data string and populate it in load complete?
In 3.5, there is a new functionnality : summary footer row that uses a second array (userdata) in the json result. Maybe you could use something like this to store your search parameters ?
I don't know if you can access to the json array in the client side script, but maybe Tony could tell us…
and can access the same in the gridComplete event.
How can I set these values back into the search form (multisearch:true), so that when the user presses the search button, the search parameters are already selected for him?
The way we are implementing this is to save the search parameters in session when ever a search is conducted. Then when the user returns to this page, we use the session value to filter the data and also return the values as user data in the json string. The grid complete function is utilized to set these values as search critera.