Hi Daniel,

I've just sent you a private ticket with a workaround that adds the requested Refresh button in the current implementation of the Grid. Below I will share the suggested approach again, just in case someone from the community wants to achieve the same functionality as yours. 

To add a refresh button we can run the following in the mounted hook of the component where we use the Grid.

mounted() {
  const pagerInfo = document.getElementsByClassName('k-pager-info')[0];
  let refresh = document.createElement('div');
  refresh.style.cssText = 'order: 10';
  refresh.innerHTML =
    '<a href="#" class="k-pager-refresh k-link" title="Refresh" aria-label="Refresh"><span class="k-icon k-i-reload"></span></a>';

  refresh.addEventListener(
    'click',
    function () {
      this.onRefresh();
    }.bind(this)
  );
  pagerInfo.before(refresh);
}

With the above, we can have the following onRefresh method:

onRefresh() {
  this.getData();
}

Here is an example demonstrating the usage of the above code. The current implementation refreshes the data by fetching it again from the server. What we can do in the onRefresh method, is to make a server call, based on the filters, sorting, etc. applied to your data, and receive the required data.

I hope the above details and examplewill help someone implement the discussed scenario before the current feature request is implemented.

Regards,
Petar
Progress Telerik