If you want to ensure that any filters you’ve set in OneSearch are locked in place for any subsequent searches, you’ll want to use the “Remember all filters” option, which is found above the list of filters on the right side of search results pages. This feature is essential when you’re sharing a set of search results with a patron, as it is likely that after the patron has received the search results page you sent them they may then run additional searches from that page and be assuming that the active filters are still in place.

Here is the location of the “Remember all filters” function that you can apply once you’ve selected one or more filters:

Once you click “Remember all filters,” each of the active filters will display a lock icon to let you know they are set:

If you’ve locked any filter, you can unlock it by mousing over it and selecting the unlocked padlock icon that appears.

Bonus Info about URL Syntax of Search Results

If you look closely at the URLs for a search results page with unlocked active filters and for a search results page with locked filters, you can see that the latter includes an “lk” indicator just after the specific facet that’s been locked (highlighted below in orange):

Unlocked active filters:

https://cuny-bb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,turtles&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01CUNY_BB:CUNY_BB&mfacet=rtype,include,book_chapters,1&mfacet=rtype,include,articles,1&offset=0

Locked active filters: