Recreating a URL string
Do you mean write code that would repeat the multiple if/else statements? cause that would be the right idea and make your code more DRY. 

The first thing to take a look at is your data structure. As it is, you have hard-coded a handful of ticker properties that would make iteration difficult. You could use a for/in loop to go through the properties of your object, but we know we don't want the description or id in the string. Better to put all tickers in an array. That way it'll be easy to create a string with as many (or little) tickers as you want.

{
    description: "GOOG AAPL TSLA"
    id: 42
    tickers: ["GOOG", "AAPL", "TSLA"]
    timespan: "1mo"
}


It's now easy to iterate over the tickers and construct a string out of them. Since we always start with ticker_&lt;n&gt; as the beginning, we can construct that inside our loop, using the index to count which ticker # we are on.

For the function:

function createUrl(viewObject){
    // use .map to add "ticker_&lt;n&gt;=&lt;value&gt;" to each of the tickers,
    // then join with "&amp;" for the query.
    var urlString = viewObject.tickers
        .map(function(ticker, index){
             // prepend the first query with its own '&amp;'
            var and = index === 0 ? "&amp;" : "";

            //create a 1-indexed count of the tickers.
            var tickerNum = index + 1; 
            return and + "ticker_" + tickerNum + "=" + ticker;
        })
        .join('&amp;'); //&lt;--separate each query with "&amp;"

    // for timespan, you don't need to make a seperate `time` variable,
    // this can be done in one line.
    if(viewObject.timespan) urlString += "&amp;timespan=" + viewObject.timespan;

    console.log('/dashboard'+urlString);
    return '/dashboard'+urlString;
}