title: in jqgrid, is there a way to programatically set multi search filter criteria (from the server side of an asp.net-mvc app)
body: <p>i want to automate a user going into the &quot;Find Records&quot; / multi search UI and preset a filter in jqgrid to</p>
  <p>Specific field contains &quot;abc&quot;<br />
  Second field does not equal &quot;123&quot;</p>
  <p>is this possible in jqgrid? i can set the toolbar filter by just adding item to the query string (Field1=&quot;test&quot;) so, in my asp.net-mvc controller action, i would do something like this:</p>
  <pre><code>string name = &quot;Joe&quot;;
  return Redirect(&quot;/Project?Owner=&quot; + name);
  </code></pre>
  <p>but i now want to replicate the support for the advanced search so i can do</p>
  <ul>
  <li><p>Multiple Fields</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>Different operator (equals, does not equal)</p>
  <p>i would like it to work so if the user did click on the Filter button that it would be prepopualated with these filter just like as if they would have done this initial filter manually like this:
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QuOPE.png" alt="enter image description here" /></p>
  </li>
  </ul>
  <p>I see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2928371/how-to-filter-the-jqgrid-data-not-using-the-built-in-search-filter-box/2928819#2928819">this question</a> but i want to be able to do this from the server side.  Is there anyway to set postdata from the serverside of any asp.net mvc app??</p>