Hi,

the grid uses OData encoding for all of its features by default, if you don't set the keys explicitly. so basically you don't need to change any of the options. Let me know if this helps

Thanks,

Angel

{
	name: 'Sorting',
	type: "remote",
	columnSettings: [						
		{columnKey: "IsNew", allowSorting: false}
	],
},
{
	name: "GroupBy",					
	type: "remote"					
},

 The complete grid initialization script:

$("#table").igGrid({
	dataSource			: dSource,						
	autoGenerateColumns	: false,
	alternateRowStyles	: true,
	showHeader			: true,
	showFooter			: false,
	jQueryTemplating	: true,					
	rowTemplate			: $("#rowTemplate").html(),							
	columns: [
		{
			headerText: "",
			key: "IsNew",			
			dataType: "bool",
			width: 28 
		},
		{
			headerText: "Routed",
			key: "HasBeenRouted",			
			dataType: "bool",
			width: 28,
			hidden:true 
		},
		{
			headerText: "Escalated",
			key: "HasBeenEscalated",			
			dataType: "bool",
			width: 28,
			hidden:true 
		},				
		{
			headerText: "Description", 
			key: "DisplayName", 					
			dataType: "string",
			width: 130
		},
		{
			headerText: "No", 
			key: "Id", 					
			dataType: "number", 
			width: 25 
		},
		{
			headerText: "Group",
			key: "ProcessGroupId",					
			width: 50
		},
		{
			headerText: "From",
			key: "Originator",					
			width: 70
		},
		{
			headerText: "Participant",
			key: "CurrentParticipant",					
			width: 70
		},
		{ 
			headerText: "Received", 
			key: "ActivationDate",					
			dataType: "date", 
			format: "dateTime",	
			width: 45 			
		},
		{
			headerText: "Due",
			key: "DueDate",
			dataType: "date",
			format: "dateTime",	
			width: 45
		}
	],			
	features: [
		{
			name: 'Paging',
			pageSize: 25,
			recordCountKey: "Total",
			showFirstLastPages : true,
			showPagerRecordsLabel: true,
			showPageSizeDropDown: false,
			showPrevNextPages: true
		},
		{
			name: 'Sorting',
			type: "remote",
			columnSettings: [						
				{columnKey: "IsNew", allowSorting: false}
			],
		},
		{
			name: "GroupBy",					
			type: "remote"					
		},
		{
			name: "Filtering",
			mode: 'simple',
			allowFiltering: true,
			caseSensitive: false,					
			columnSettings: [						
				{columnKey: "IsNew", allowFiltering: false}						
			],
			filterDropDownItemIcons: true,					
		}				
	]
});

Thanks