Incorrect course search links with different courses parent page and search page

[igobranco]

Bug Report

Issues when Richie is configured with different pages, one for the course parent page and another for the search page.

On NAU we have the /en/courses page, that allows to search the courses, but the parent courses page is the /en/course. This second page has the id courses, so Richie knows where to put the newer course pages, and it redirect to the first /en/courses page.

We have configured this because, this was how our older marketing site works. And it seems to be working fine.
Recently we have found an issue, that the organization detail page, categories page, etc, are refering to the correct courses page search. They are refering the /en/course page with additional query parameters. But the redirect on the page lost the query parameters.
So for the user, when he goes to the organization page and clicks to view all the courses for that organization, it's lost the organization filter during the redirect.

I think that the major issue is that Richie has 2 different concepts mixed toogether:

1. the search page
2. the parent course page
   On a simpler solution both could be the same page, but I think Richie should allow different configurations. For example the search could evolve to search more stuff, like programs and not only courses.

Possible Solution

Add a new Django setting that allow to change the courses search reverse id.

[igobranco]

This issue is being "fixed" directly on Django CMS django-cms/django-cms#7489

[igobranco]

The PR django-cms/django-cms#7489 has been merged to the develop branch, so we need to wait for the new release of django-cms and its upgrade on Richie.
Given that this issue is specific to NAU installation, I think that the new CMS_REDIRECT_PRESERVE_QUERY_PARAMS setting (that fix this issue) doesn't need to be enabled by default on Richie.
Closing this issue.