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Appkit has advanced support for specifying custom URL patterns for filtering and grouping search results. The Topic Pages module includes specialized versions of tags that work together to:
  • Output links with a particular path structure according to a pattern
  • Interpret the path of the current URL to apply filters to a search.
This allows for a rich user interface which can help a user make sense of highly ‘categorized’ data and map different views of the data to readable URLs.
  1. Add the following route to your routes.js or search.routes.js: 
    .state('details', {
url: '/{slug}/{id}',
templateUrl: function (params) {

    if (params.slug === '') {
        params.slug = defaultPage;
    }
    if (params.id === '') {
        return 'views/' + defaultPage + '.html';
    }

    return 'views/' + params.slug + '-detail.html';
},
controller: 'MainCtrl'
})
  2. Create a view called search-detail.html.
  3. Ensure that your controller, search.controller.js or main.js, contains the line, $scope.params = $stateParams;. Also, ensure that $stateParams is injected into your controller.
  4. Add a search:query tag in your search-detail.html page that contains a nested filter with the ID parameter passed in the URL as the filter: 
    <search:platform var="platform" conf="YOUR_PLATFORM_HERE"></search:platform>

<search:query var="query" parameters="" results-per-page="1" max-results="1">
    <search:filter field="id" value="{{params.id}}"></search:filter>
</search:query>

<search:response var="response" platform='platform' query="query">
</search:response>
  5. In your result, set your URL to link to the new detail page. Use that result’s ID as a parameter: 
    <search:field name="title" url="search/{{result.id}}"></search:field>

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Invalid characters in the URL

If your ID includes non URL safe characters, you will need to create a new unique ID field with these characters removed.You can refer to these in steps 4 and 5 by doing the following:Step 4
<search:filter field="my_other_field_name" value="{{params.id}}"></search:filter>
Step 5
<search:field name="title" url="search/{{result | field:'my_other_field_name' | actual | encodeURIComponent}}"></search:field>
Now if the user goes to mysite.com/search/id-of-the-document, it will load that page with the ID passed into the URL.