Tab module not resolving the value set in the valuesetter module

[RickGenesis]

I have a valuesetter that I use to set a variable at the top of my dashboard as per this answer
[global variable][1]

  <module name="ValueSetter" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1" autoRun="True">
    <param name="name">AppName</param>
    <param name="value">fred</param>

I then use this variable through out my dashboard, for some reason the tabs module doesn't resolve the value, the changes tab that has a hard coded value(fred) works, and the HTLM module directly above the tab module also does so I assume I am getting the value passed downstream but the incidents tab where I pass in the value to a macro doesnt work.

<module name="HTML" layoutPanel="panel_row2_col1">
  <param name="html"><![CDATA[
    <p>$AppName$ filtered list of Changes, incidents and Alarms</p>
    ]]> 
  </param>
</module> <!-- the value isnt resolved below this -->
<module name="Tabs" autoRun="True" layoutPanel="panel_row2_col1" group="ITSM">
  <param name="name">ITSM_Tab</param>
  <param name="staticTabs">
    <list>
      <param name="label">Changes</param>
      <param name="value">`ITS_Mcr_AppITSMChanges(fred)`</param>
    </list>
    <list>
      <param name="label">Incidents</param>
      <param name="value">`ITS_Mcr_AppITSMChanges($AppName$)`</param>
    </list>
    <list>
      <param name="label">Alerts</param>
      <param name="value"></param>
    </list>
  </param>
  <module name="Search">
    <param name="search">
      $ITSM_Tab$
    </param>

any help much appreciated.

[sideview · Accepted solution]

My previous answer was wrong, so I deleted it. Sorry about that - autoRun="True" can indeed cause this kind of bug and I leapt to a conclusion here before looking more deeply.

The problem is that the Tabs module does not allow $foo$ replacement into its values. Neither the static tab values nor the dynamic tab values allow $foo$ replacement so any $foo$ tokens in there will just be passed downstream verbatim.

However you're not the first person to ask for this, nor the second. So I'll put it in the queue and it'll be in some version of Utils going forward. I always think I've done a good job making everything in Sideview Utils support $foo$ substitution, but customers are always even better at finding the spots I missed. 😃 And as you can see from the release notes there have been quite a few items of "such and such param now supports $foo$-substitution".

Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the report.

[RickGenesis]

No problem, thanks for the update, I have edited my Tab values so they just have the name of the macro and then I build the macro string up in the search module using the foo value, $ITSM_Tab$($AppName$) works like a charm.