topic Why am I getting a syntax error with the &quot;&&quot; character for a drilldown in my XML? in Dashboards & Visualizations https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Why-am-I-getting-a-syntax-error-with-the-quot-quot-character-for/m-p/256141#M16056 <P>I want to pass two parameters the URL with drilldown, but when I put <CODE>&amp;</CODE>, the code is in red.<BR /> Does anyone know why? And how to solve?</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1375i7900C9DD3578D51C/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> <P>Thanks !!!</P> Tue, 17 May 2016 14:35:57 GMT renanprado96 2016-05-17T14:35:57Z Why am I getting a syntax error with the "&" character for a drilldown in my XML? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Why-am-I-getting-a-syntax-error-with-the-quot-quot-character-for/m-p/256141#M16056 <P>I want to pass two parameters the URL with drilldown, but when I put <CODE>&amp;</CODE>, the code is in red.<BR /> Does anyone know why? And how to solve?</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1375i7900C9DD3578D51C/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> <P>Thanks !!!</P> Tue, 17 May 2016 14:35:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Why-am-I-getting-a-syntax-error-with-the-quot-quot-character-for/m-p/256141#M16056 renanprado96 2016-05-17T14:35:57Z Re: Why am I getting a syntax error with the "&" character for a drilldown in my XML? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Why-am-I-getting-a-syntax-error-with-the-quot-quot-character-for/m-p/256142#M16057 <P>You need to escape the <CODE>&amp;</CODE> character or enclose the URL in <CODE>CDATA</CODE> tag. Like this</P> <PRE><CODE>&lt;link&gt; &lt;![CDATA[ /app/search/form_for_drilldown?form.sourcetype=$row.sourcetype$&amp;earliest=$earliest$&amp;latest=$latest$ ]]&gt; &lt;/link&gt; </CODE></PRE> Tue, 17 May 2016 15:11:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Why-am-I-getting-a-syntax-error-with-the-quot-quot-character-for/m-p/256142#M16057 sundareshr 2016-05-17T15:11:15Z Re: Why am I getting a syntax error with the "&" character for a drilldown in my XML? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Why-am-I-getting-a-syntax-error-with-the-quot-quot-character-for/m-p/256143#M16058 <P>Thank you!!!!</P> Tue, 17 May 2016 16:48:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Why-am-I-getting-a-syntax-error-with-the-quot-quot-character-for/m-p/256143#M16058 renanprado96 2016-05-17T16:48:48Z