topic Re: dropdown token argument to macro argument in Knowledge Management

dropdown token argument to macro argument

surekhasplunk — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:09:07 GMT

Am using a macro with 1 argument
and while calling it to update my table with values am passing query as mymacro(arg1=*) and it works well.

Now my requirement is arg1 value is coming from dropdown selected value.
So if i have set token as field1 for the dropdown then how to use that as arg1 for macro.

i tried using mymacro(arg1=$field1$) but it isn't working.

Re: dropdown token argument to macro argument

niketn — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:15:30 GMT

@surekhasplunk, can you add dropdown code XML?

Re: dropdown token argument to macro argument

renjith_nair — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:01:00 GMT

@surekhasplunk ,

In macro, you just need to pass the token as mymacro($field1$) where field1 is your token.

Make sure that the argument list and definition of macro matches in terms of number of arguments and variable name

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Knowledge/Usesearchmacros

Re: dropdown token argument to macro argument

surekhasplunk — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:33:43 GMT

<input type="dropdown" token="field1" id="resized_input">
  <label>Business Area</label>
  <prefix>"</prefix>
  <suffix>"</suffix>
  <fieldForLabel>SubDivision 4</fieldForLabel>
  <fieldForValue>SubDivision 4</fieldForValue>
  <search>
    <query>|inputlookup file.csv| dedup  "SubDivision 4" | table "SubDivision 4"</query>
    <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
    <latest>now</latest>
  </search>
  <choice value="*">ALL</choice>
  <default>*</default>
</input>

My field1 is a string and has got spaces in it.