In our SP Server 2013 environment we have an employee directory. The hover panel that shows up next to a result shows the Department name of an employee. This is a clickable hyperlink. When a user clicks on it, he's being taken to a new search results page with the Department name as the query.
Problem is:
The Department name contains characters such as & or +. When the link is clicked, everything after the & is gone. Or, in case of the +, the + sign is removed. This results in incorrect search results.
I checked the code in the People hover panel display template and it says (Afdeling means Department):
<div class="ms-srch-hover-text" id="_#= ctx.CurrentItem.Department =#_">Afdeling: <a href="?k=department:_#= ctx.CurrentItem.Department =#_">_#= ctx.CurrentItem.Department =#_</a></div> In the search engine, when a user clicks on the Department name in the hover panel, the resulting url being created is:
rootdomain/zoeken/Paginas/peopleresults.aspx?k=department:P&I/L&M/SASO/SASOB ( P&I/L&M/SASO/SASOB is the Department name).
I think the Department code should be in double quotation marks ("") to ensure it processes the entire Department name as the query, not just what's before the & character.
How can I fix this in the display template? Or should something else be changed?
