Create a better way to "Make Saved Search" from the Search UI

[whatisgalen]

Currently, a user copies the url from a search query and pastes this into the "saved search" url field. The reasons this isn't ideal are:

• migrating saved searches data from one instance to another (e.g. dev to prod) carries the baggage of the different host names (which then must be manually changed)
• the url only contains query parameters for GET requests -- longer requests (involving geojson filtering) may get made as POST, thus not showing up in the url parameters due to character limits
• the http encoding of the url can make the search request very hard to visually parse; a better representation would be key: value a la json object

*As a side note, a related issue with the saved searches UX is that it reloads the entire page. Search is basically a progressive web app, so it should just mutate the query based on whatever the saved search query params were, not reload the entire page.

What might a potential solution be?

A user with high enough permissions could click a button labeled "Make saved Search" which copies the current query parameters to a json object, storing that in the saved search tile.