title: How to do external filtering on jqgrid
body: <p>I am implementing jqGrid in my ASP.net web aplication, and I don't want to use the inbuilt filtering provided by jqGrid. So, I thought of using external filtering.</p>
  
  <p>I will have a textbox. As soon as a user enters a value and clicks on the button filter, I would like to reload the grid. I am using server side pagination and I must do server side filtering.</p>
  
  <p>I have some posts regarding this, but I was not able to find a solid example to demonstrate this.</p>
  
  <p>I also dont know how the filter value is recieved in the C# code to do the filtering.</p>