Admin "quick Menu" Links Too Long

So I've been using the quick menu for quickly accessing my approved orders for the day. I needed to add a new link for approved orders with a new status but it seems something has changed as the links are extremely long now for some reason. And it appears they are too long for the input field.

My original link that works looks like:

/admin.php?dispatch=orders.manage&view_id=23

When I try and create a new one it looks like:

/admin.php?is_search=Y&cname=&email=&issuer=&total_from=&total_to=&period=A&time_from=&time_to=&status[]=O&status[]=P&status[]=N&tax_exempt=&order_id=&credit_memo_id=&invoice_id=&p_ids=&gift_cert_code=&gift_cert_in=B|U&dispatch[orders.manage]=Search&hint_new_view=Name&security_hash=2258c81dbc8eb4d9cf4dcef1714045888

But when I put that link into the quick links menu the end is cut off so I get an error:

/admin.php?dispatch=Array&is_search=Y&cname=&email=&issuer=&total_from=&total_to=&period=A&time_from=&time_to=&status%5B0%5D=O&status%5B1%5D=P&status%5B2%5D=N&tax_exempt=&order_id=&credit_memo_id=&invoice_id=&p_ids=&gift_cert_code=&gift_cert_in=B%7CU&hint_new_view=Name&secur

FYI. My actual links are not those above as my admin name is different and it has my full website address and security hash has been changed.

  1. Why is the first link that works so short? How does it know what statuses I am looking for with such a short link?
  2. Is there any way to fix my issue? I can bookmark the long link and it works but this is not ideal as our workflow doesn't work this way. And I think this link may expire?

Go to Manage orders page and create new saved search at the right sidebar. Then check URL of this search and add it to quick menu

Go to Manage orders page and create new saved search at the right sidebar. Then check URL of this search and add it to quick menu

Thanks! It was still acting goofy when trying to do that so I just modified an old saved search to add the new status to it and it worked.

You are welcome!