jqgrid, export to excel (with current filter post data) in an asp.net-mvc site

Question

i have an asp.net-mvc web page and i am using jqgrid on the front end. i want to have an export to excel button that will export the current set of data (based on the curr

Answer 1

What I have done is put the gridstate into the cache each time data is requested, then I do the export to excel using the gridState. There are examples of this somewhere on the jqGrid site:

//this fragment in GetData method
Session["ExceptionGridState"] = gridModel.ExceptionGrid.GetState(true);

Then when the export is called:

public ActionResult ExportToExcel_CurrentData()
{
  var gridModel = new ExceptionJqGridModel();
  var grid = gridModel.ExceptionGrid;

  // call the ExportToExcel built-in method
  JQGridState gridState = Session["ExceptionGridState"] as JQGridState;
  gridState.CurrentPageOnly = false;
  grid.ExportToExcel(SourceQuery(),
        String.Format("SomeDatasetName_Filtered_{0:yyyymmddhhmm}.xls", 
            DateTime.Now), 
        gridState);

return View();

}

This works for me.