[Issue]: Back behavior

[ClaireValdivia]

Why is this issue important?

now that grant details are separate pages, we don't want users to lose their spot on the previous page

Current State

na

Expected State

When you navigate to a grant details page from any page within grant finder, clicking the "Back" link should:

• bring you to the previous page you were on
• if your previous page was saved search results on Browse Grants, you should return to the specific saved search results
• if your previous page was one of the tabs within the My Grants page, you should return to the tab you were on
• ideally, if you were on a paginated results page, you would be returned to the specific page of results you were on
• clicking the "back" link should do the same thing as clicking "back" on the browser

Within the Browse grants tab

• if you are viewing page one of search results, then click on page 2, then click Back in the browser, you should go back to page 1
• if you sort results on the page (i.e. view close date in ascending order), and then click back, you won't go back to the way the page was previously sorted.

On My Grants tab

• if you are on the Interested tab, then go to the Not Interested tab, then click Back, you will be brought back to the Interested tab.

Implementation Plan

The following functions need to be added...

Relevant Code Snippets

No response

[jsandlund]

Dropping in a few thoughts on possible solutions:

1. store prev. search state in SERP url params (if 1, SERP urls w/ url params should be shareable with other logged-in users)
2. store prev. search state somewhere else, e.g. localstorage?
3. don't store prev. search state. open SERP links in new a tab, remove back button.
4. other?

Agnostic of LOE, I really like #1. Sharing search results via URLs would be a nice-to-have. It feels more intuitive. And, as a bonus, we'd get better viz into search query data.

If the LOE of #1 is much higher than 2 (or 3): +1 starting w/ 2 or 3 w/ the MVP.

3 might be the simplest? Not ideal on mobile as the user can't swipe left to return. But per Google analytics, <2% of GF users are on mobile devices.

[ClaireValdivia]

This is looking great. moving this to closed and will open new issues for adjustments!