& In URL Breaking Search Results

[NickyP]

Version>Funnelback 15.10.0

Whenever I click on any of the facet links/navigation I get &sort=dmeta2& in the URL which breaks the results page.

I had to resort to using jQuery:
//correct URL
$('.uc-facet li a').each(function() {
$(this).attr("href", function(index, oldfacet) {
return oldfacet.replace(/&/g, "&");
});
});

example URL: <a href="search.html?collection=courseguide&amp;amp;form=course&amp;amp;profile=_default_preview&amp;amp;sort=dmeta2&amp;amp;query=pharmacy&amp;smeta_B_sand=undergraduate">Undergraduate</a>

Can't figure out why this is occurring - has anyone else had this issue and how it was fixed?

Thanks in advance
NickyP

[LukeButters]

Does the URL come from the data model or is it being generated in freemarker?
Could you switch from search.html to search.json and share the 'facets' section under 'response'.

I wonder if this has something to do with freemarker wrongly escaping for html.

[NickyP]

Thanks Luke - too hard so i ended up just staying with the javascript solution