# Elastic Search UI: Better query strings

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-ui-better-query-strings/375855>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Created:** [March 13, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-ui-better-query-strings/375855 "2025-03-13T16:57:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![tanza-s](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tanza-s/32/141330_2.png) [@tanza-s](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanza-s)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-ui-better-query-strings/375855/1 "2025-03-13T16:57:04Z")

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Hello,

I'm currently working on an Elastic Search UI implementation. I would like to be able to customize the query that is in the url. For example, in our course directory the url for an instructor query looks like this:  
`...courses/?size=n_20_n&filters%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=get_instructors_filter&filters%5B0%5D%5Bvalues%5D%5B0%5D=FirstName%20F%20LastName&filters%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=any`

We previously used Searchkit, on which the query string looked like this  
`courses/?instructor[0]=FirstName%20LastName`

Anything I can do to modify the string?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-ui-better-query-strings/375855/2 "2025-04-10T16:57:19Z")

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