Alloy Search – URL

Foundry Alloy
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Hi Adam

I’ve run into a problem with the Alloy Blog Search stack.
I really enjoy working with Alloy 3.

Here’s my problem:

I have this webpage created with the Alloy Blog Stacks:
URL: https://dogshit.dk/blog

Steps:

  1. Searching in the Alloy Search Stack (it’s in the banner bottom right)

  2. Alloy shows a list of post with the search term.

  3. I click one of the links (let’s say I click the link ‘Kort om DogsHit’.

  4. I get the url: URL/kort-om-dogshit

  5. Then I make another search.

  6. I find a link to a new post on the search list – and click on it

  7. I get: URL/kort-om-dogshitforhandlere

The post doesn’t show when I click on the headline og read more button, because the url is wrong.

It’s: URL/kort-om-dogshitforhandlere
when it should be
URL/blog/forhandlere

It happens because Alloy adds (in this case) ‘forhandlere’ at the end of the last search.

Have I made a mistake somewhere in the setup somewhere?

Best,
DeFliGra

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My guess is you’re showing the search bar on individual blog post pages, correct? If so that is why you’re getting compounding URLs. This is because you’re initiating a search from the original blog post instead of the main Posts List view. If you take a look at the Foundry Blog you’ll notice I use a conditional to have the search show only on the main Posts List view.

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Hi Adam

That’s right – the Alloy Search stack is positioned in the header-banner image at the top of DogsHit Tips 🐾 Tricks 🐾 Regler – didn’t know it was a limitation of the Alloy Search stack. But it makes sense.

A ‘universal’ Alloy Search stack is on my wishlist for Alloy 4 :slightly_smiling_face:.

Thanx,
DeFliGra

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I’ve added this to my feature requests for Alloy. I believe the reason it works this way, if I can remember back to when I originally coded it, was because of the page scope and I didn’t want the user having to “link” the search stack to the blog page. I’ll have a re-think though on it when I am able. though.

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