Provide a way to manipulate UI elements without triggering callbacks

[Nathan-Schwartz]

When setting up persistent sorting / filtering on a given table, I would likely restore the relay variables to restore the old results. The problem is that the table wouldn't know to sync the UI with the results and the table header arrows / filter options wouldn't be displaying the correctly.

Some desirable options include:

• Manipulate sorts
• Manipulate filters (Including the display state of the filters)
• Manipulate search query