Is it possible to generate a url/link to web access that contains an already configured search criteria?

replied on March 2, 2018

Did you want them to get to the page with the same search results? If so, you can get the link to that by clicking on Copy Link (circled in the screenshot).

See Open to a Set of Search Results for more information.

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replied on March 7, 2018

Hi Leif,

I don't necessarily want to take them to the same results. I just want them to open up the link and see the same search criteria. I believe we were able to do this in version 9.

I tried clicking that icon and copying it as well but it still gives me the page with the Search syntax that I provided in the post.

So in summary, I've tried the URL from the browser as well as that Copy Link icon.

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replied on March 8, 2018

So, I'm looking at your screenshot again, and it seems that you are getting taken to the Results page---it's just that there are no results for that particular search (that's what it says in the right pane). Can you check again with a search that has results?

I also get the same page that you do when I conduct a search that has no hits. When I do a search that has hits and copy the link from the button, it works. The search syntax is displayed, but so are the hits. A screenshot of my successful search is attached.

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replied on March 8, 2018

Here is another screenshot as an example. So, in Version 9, we were able to save a search. Once we load the saved search, the URL will include the saved search's name, thus taking the user to that exact search. The template + its values should still be displayed on the left pane as shown in this attachment.

In the picture, the saved search is called "Test," and when I loaded the search, the search name "Test" is included in the URL.

Is this something that's changed in the newest version?

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replied on August 7, 2018

Hi Leif,

Just want to follow up on this question. Do you know if it's possible to send a URL that goes right to the saved search like it did in Version 9?

Thank you.

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replied on August 7, 2018

Unfortunately, when you copy the search URL, it conducts an advanced search syntax search, and the web client is unable to generate search blocks from search syntax (it only goes in one direction). This is something that changed between 9 and 10.

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replied on August 7, 2018

Thank you for getting back to me.

Are there any plans to create a "search form-like" feature (like in WebLink) for the Web Client, so that users will be able to click on a URL and it will take them to the exact search criteria?

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replied on August 7, 2018

Hi Karen,

As Leif notes, if you provide a URL to direct search syntax, the web client cannot translate that back to the search blocks. We are adding functionality to an upcoming version that will allow you to collapse the search syntax in your link, but it's still going to be syntax.

That said, however, you can accomplish what you are looking for by using a saved search definition instead. So if you link to a saved search, it will indeed display and populate the search blocks as if you had directly loaded the saved search yourself. You can use the following syntax: https://ServerName/laserfiche/browse.aspx?db=dbName#/?searchname=SavedSearchName.

Keep in mind that this ties in very nicely with the new functoinality in 10.3 allowing users to create and push out saved search definitions to specific groups or the entire repository directly through the UI.

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