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I would like to display a set of specific search results as menu items within the CiviCRM black menu bar (e.g., "Group X Contacts" is a menu item that displays all contacts that are part of Group X smart group"). I am doing this in order to avoid requiring back-end users to construct complex searches.

I am not sure what url I should insert for each menu item as part of creating the "New Menu Item" on the Customize>Navigation Menu page.  The url's generated by performing the search are not static and contain keys (e.g., option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/contact/search&&_qf_Basic_display=true&qfKey=ed17013533ffa923e53acb540177a19f). 

Is there a different way to construct the search url?

Thanks, Eileen.  I knew a simple url structure existed but wasn't sure of the exact construction.

Since I am using Joomla, I modified the url you referenced (which works fine for the Drupal test site) to the following relative url:

           civicrm/group/search&reset=1&force=1&gid=12&

For future reference, is there a way of forcing the display of this type of url structure vs the "key-based url"?  Or is there master documentation source of these url-based commands?