topic Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute in Dashboards & Visualizations

[Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

punkle — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:46:48 GMT

I defined the following HTML element within one row of my dashboard (which is called with the GET parameter '?tsmserver=TSM512'):

  <html>
   <h2>Other Server Information</h2> 
   <ul>
    <li><h3><a href="DR-9-1?tsmserver=$tsmserver$">$tsmserver$ Data Stats</a></h3></li>
   </ul>
  </html>

However only the second occurrence of the $tsmserver$ token gets substituted with "TSM512" while the first one (the one within the href attribute) does not, therefore making the link unusable. Is this a bug or is this done on purpose? In case it is done on purpose, how can I put a link (containing a URL variable) within an html element in simple XML?

Thank you very much for your help,

Dan

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

dfoster_splunk — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:43:31 GMT

Thanks for reporting this. It does actually look like a bug, as all $token$ values inside an <html> block are supposed to be replaceable.

For the moment it appears that token values inside elements like <a href="$token$"> will not work, although tokens outside of elements like <a>$token</a> will work.

I don't think you can work around this using Simple XML. If you upgrade your Simple XML dashboard to an HTML dashboard using Edit > Convert to HTML, you can modify the resultant HTML so that the %24 values in the <a href="DR-9-1?tsmserver=%24tsmserver%24"> are replaced with $ correctly.

Note that HTML dashboards can no longer be modified with the visual dashboard editor.

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

alexiri — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:45:53 GMT

Hello @dfoster_splunk,

Has this already been opened as a bug internally, or should we report it through our support contract?

Cheers,
Alex

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

dfoster_splunk — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:01:02 GMT

This bug has already been opened and prioritized, so you shouldn't need to do anything else.

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

ErikRothman — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:45:14 GMT

Any updates on this? Is the bug resolved yet? Seems like it still doesn't work in the latest version:

Splunk Version
6.0.1
Splunk Build
189883

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

dfoster_splunk — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:31:08 GMT

The bug is still open. Based on its prioritization it is unlikely to get fixed in the Splunk 6.0.x timeframe.

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

alexiri — Fri, 09 May 2014 09:05:30 GMT

This is still not fixed in 6.1, and I don't see it listed in the release notes' known issues page[1]. Is there any update on this?

[1] http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1/ReleaseNotes/KnownIssues

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

dfoster_splunk — Fri, 09 May 2014 19:01:58 GMT

It looks like this item was pushed out of Splunk 6.1, as you observe. -- You might ask your support contact about the issue, which shows up internally as SPL-77044.

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

alexiri — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:55:36 GMT

I've just been told that this is solved in version 6.2, we'll see if it's true in a few days.

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

guilmxm — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:07:04 GMT

Hi,

I confirm for having tested it that is has been definitively solved with the 6.2 version.
Same not working simple xml interfaces works now as expected, tokens are subsituded with success.

Great new!

Guilhem

Re: [Simple XML] Token not substituted within href attribute

SreeragM — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:47:53 GMT

Hi,

'&' character inside html href is still causing issue in my dashboards. is there a workaround of this?
I'm trying to add html link to another form at the botton of a table.