topic Re: setup.xml custom endpoint label newline in Splunk Search

setup.xml custom endpoint label newline

klee310 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:40:29 GMT

I'm trying to put a newline in my label tag in for one of the inputs. Not sure how the newline character should be specified.

This is what I have:

<input field="general_log_encoding_string">
 <label>
 Custom character-encoding name if different from default, ex. BIG-5
 \n\r
 See http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding for details</label>
 <type>text</type>
</input>

But the result comes out like this:

Custom character-encoding name if different from default, ex. BIG-5 \n\r See http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding for details

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Re: setup.xml custom endpoint label newline

LukeMurphey — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:43:54 GMT

You can do this using a break or paragraph tag. However, you will need to put your HTML in CDATA blocks so that it is ignored by Splunk's XML parser. Below is an updated version of your sample:

<input field="general_log_encoding_string">
 <text>
 Custom character-encoding name if different from default, ex. BIG-5
 <![CDATA[<p>]]> <!-- Note the custom HTML included here -->
 See http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding for details</text>
 <type>text</type>
</input>

Re: setup.xml custom endpoint label newline

klee310 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:55:38 GMT

tried that, and this is what i get:
Custom character-encoding name if different from default, ex. BIG-5

See http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding for details

Re: setup.xml custom endpoint label newline

LukeMurphey — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:36:21 GMT

Try putting the comment in in a text tag as opposed to a label tag. i.e. ...

Re: setup.xml custom endpoint label newline

klee310 — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:54:47 GMT

not quite sure what you're trying to get at. if I replace the label tag with the text tag, the setup.xml screen doesn't even load up. AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

Re: setup.xml custom endpoint label newline

LukeMurphey — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:18:55 GMT

Check the internal error log. Open the search app and run a search for:

index=_internal error

Re: setup.xml custom endpoint label newline

klee310 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:48:57 GMT

I've checked everywhere, and there doesn't seem to be a solution anywhere. I guess I'll just give up this function. Its bells-and-whistles anyways.