--- livetable.js.1	2009-08-17 14:39:17.000000000 +0200
+++ livetable.js	2009-10-06 18:19:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -86,8 +86,15 @@
 
     this.observeSortableColumns();   
  
+    // Code to retrieve the current filters in the target part of the url
+    var currentFilter = location.hash;
+    if (currentFilter && currentFilter!="" && this.filters!=currentFilter) {
+         this.lastoffset = this.filter.updateFilters(currentFilter.substring(1));
+         this.filters = this.filter.getFilters();
+    }
+
     // Show initial rows
-    this.showRows(1, this.limit);
+    this.showRows(this.lastoffset,this.limit)
   },
 
   /**
@@ -213,6 +220,10 @@
   showRows: function(offset, limit)
   {
     this.lastoffset = offset;
+
+    // Set the target part of the URL to have the filters be sticky
+    location = "#offset=" + this.lastoffset + this.filters;
+
     // This is some debugging string.
     var buff  = 'request to display rows '+offset+' to '+(offset+limit)+' <br />\n';
 
@@ -528,6 +539,54 @@
     return filterString;
   },
 
+  updateFilters:function(filterString){
+    // populating the filter objects
+    this.filters=new Object();
+    var filtervalues = filterString.split('&');
+    for (var i = 0;i< filtervalues.length; i++) {
+       var filterkeyvalue = filtervalues[i];
+       var pos = filterkeyvalue.indexOf("=");
+       if (pos!=-1) {
+         this.filters[filterkeyvalue.substring(0, pos)] = filterkeyvalue.substring(pos + 1); 
+       }
+    }
+
+    // set the offset which was in the query string
+    var offset;
+    if (this.filters["offset"])
+      offset = parseInt(this.filters["offset"]);
+    else
+      offset = 1;
+
+    var inputs=this.filterNode.getElementsByTagName("input");
+    for(var i=0;i<inputs.length;i++) {
+       var key=inputs[i].name;
+       if(inputs[i].type=="radio"||inputs[i].type=="checkbox") {
+          if(this.filters[key] && this.filters[key]==inputs[i].value.strip())
+            input[i].checked = true;
+          else
+            input[i].checked = false;
+       } else {
+          if(this.filters[key])
+            inputs[i].value = this.filters[key];
+       }
+     }
+
+     var selects=this.filterNode.getElementsByTagName("select");
+     for(var i=0;i<selects.length;i++) {
+        for (var j=0;j<selects[i].options.length;j++) {
+        if (this.filters[selects[i].name] && selects[i].options[j].value == this.filters[selects[i].name]) {
+           selects[i].options[j].selected = true;
+        } else {
+           selects[i].options[j].selected = false;
+        } 
+      }
+     }
+
+     return offset;
+  },
+
+
   /**
     * Refresh the table when the filters have changed.
     */