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21 changes: 21 additions & 0 deletions src/connector.js
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Expand Up @@ -163,6 +163,16 @@ function initSearchUI() {
if (urlParams.sort) {
params.sort = urlParams.sort;
}
// set the custom action cause for the initial search
if ( urlParams.actionCause ) {
params.actionCause = urlParams.actionCause;

// changing the URL without reloading the page to remove actionCause
if ( window.history.pushState ) {
var newurl = winLoc.href.replace( '&actionCause=' + urlParams.actionCause, '' );
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You should use params.actionCause on this line

window.history.pushState( { path : newurl }, '', newurl );
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During our next technical touchpoint with GC Search team, let's make it an item to consider and test this in case of edge cases such as other parameters used; I'm thinking Canadian Food Guide (https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/), as well as Canada Gazette (https://gazette.gc.ca/accueil-home-eng.html).

}
}

// Auto detect relative path from originLevel3
if( !params.originLevel3.startsWith( "/" ) && /http|www/.test( params.originLevel3 ) ) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -585,6 +595,12 @@ function initEngine() {
// filter user sensitive content
requestContent.originLevel3 = params.originLevel3;

// override actionCause if present
if ( params.actionCause ) {
requestContent.actionCause = params.actionCause;
params.actionCause = ""; // reset the parameter to avoid polluting future searches with the same action cause
}

// documentAuthor cannot be longer than 128 chars based on search platform
if ( requestContent.documentAuthor ) {
requestContent.documentAuthor = requestContent.documentAuthor.substring( 0, 128 );
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -612,6 +628,11 @@ function initEngine() {
requestContent.analytics.originLevel3 = params.originLevel3;
}

// override actionCause if present
if ( params.actionCause ) {
requestContent.analytics.actionCause = params.actionCause;
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Wouldn't you need to clear params.actionClause it here as well?

}

let q = requestContent.q;
requestContent.q = sanitizeQuery( q );

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52 changes: 52 additions & 0 deletions src/suggestions.css
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/*
* Search UI: Styles for Query suggestion List "combobox", TO BE eventually replaced by GCWeb reference implementation codebase
*/
.query-suggestions {
background-color: white;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
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Please remove this line since the style will apply from line 44 in this file instead. And please ensure the border color is consistent.

border-left: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
border-right: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
width: calc(100% - 30px);
cursor: pointer;
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
z-index: 60;
}

.query-suggestions li {
padding: 5px 10px 5px 30px;
position: relative;
}

.query-suggestions li:hover {
background-color: #ddd;
}

.query-suggestions .suggestion-item::before {
content: "\e003";
font-family: "Glyphicons Halflings";
font-size: 0.8em;
line-height: 1.4;
margin-right: 12px;
position: relative;
top: 1px;
position: absolute;
transform: translateY(50%);
left: 8px;
}

.query-suggestions .selected-suggestion {
background-color: #ddd;
}

.query-suggestions:has(li) {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 991px) {
.query-suggestions {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
}
}
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