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Drilldown with stringreplace intention?

erydberg
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I would like to specify a drilldown with a stringreplace intention. I'm trying to do something like this, but can't get it to work. What am I missing? The first two arguments comes from two drop down lists, and the outer table renders fine. The problem is when i click on a row in my table, then the search doesn't return any results and the jobs manager shows a job with the literals "$arg1$", "$arg2$" and "$arg3$" in it, instead of replacing them with their values.

                <module name="HiddenSearch" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1" group="Group Name">
                    <param name="search">`my_first_macro($arg1$, $arg2$)`</param>
                    <module name="ResultsHeader">
                        <param name="entityName">scanned</param>
                        <param name="entityLabel">Events</param>
                        <module name="SimpleResultsTable">
                            <param name="count">100</param>
                            <param name="displayMenu">True</param>
                            <param name="drilldown">row</param>
                            <param name="settingToCreate">arg3_setting</param>
                            <param name="applyOuterIntentionsToInternalSearch">True</param>
                            <module name="ConvertToIntention">
                                <param name="preserveParentIntentions">True</param> 
                                <param name="settingToConvert">arg3_setting</param>
                                <param name="intention">
                                    <param name="name">stringreplace</param>
                                    <param name="arg">
                                        <param name="arg3">
                                            <param name="value">$click.value$</param>
                                        </param>
                                    </param>
                                </param>
                            <module name="HiddenSearch">
                                    <param name="search">`my_second_macro($arg1$, $arg2$, $arg3$)`</param>
                                    <module name="JobProgressIndicator"/>
                                    <module name="ResultsHeader">
                                        <param name="entityName">scanned</param>
                                        <param name="entityLabel">Events</param>
                                    </module>
                                    <module name="HiddenChartFormatter">
                                        <param name="chart">line</param>
                                        <module name="FlashChart">
                                            <param name="width">100%</param>                                            </module>
                                    </module>
                                </module>
                            </module>
                        </module>
                    </module>
                </module>

Thanks!

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erydberg
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The arguments from the listers were consumed in the first search, so they need to be converted again, which means that I need two more ConvertToIntention: (Also, the " <param name="settingToConvert">arg3_setting</param>" in the arg3 converter was not needed but caused that conversion to fail.) The working xml looks like:

                <module name="HiddenSearch" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1" group="Group name">
                    <param name="search">`my_macro($arg1$, $arg2$)`</param>
                    <module name="ResultsHeader">
                        <param name="entityName">scanned</param>
                        <param name="entityLabel">Events</param>
                        <module name="SimpleResultsTable">
                            <param name="count">100</param>
                            <param name="displayMenu">True</param>
                            <param name="drilldown">row</param>
                            <module name="ConvertToIntention">
                                <param name="settingToConvert">arg1_setting</param>
                                <param name="intention">
                                    <param name="name">stringreplace</param>
                                    <param name="arg">
                                        <param name="arg1">
                                            <param name="value">$target$</param>
                                        </param>
                                    </param>
                                </param>
                                <module name="ConvertToIntention">
                                    <param name="settingToConvert">arg2_setting</param>
                                    <param name="intention">
                                        <param name="name">stringreplace</param>
                                        <param name="arg">
                                            <param name="arg2">
                                                <param name="value">$target$</param>
                                            </param>
                                        </param>
                                    </param>
                                    <module name="ConvertToIntention">
                                        <param name="intention">
                                            <param name="name">stringreplace</param>
                                            <param name="arg">
                                                <param name="arg3_file">
                                                    <param name="value">$click.value$</param>
                                                </param>
                                            </param>
                                        </param>
                                        <module name="HiddenSearch">
                                            <param name="search">`file_coverage($arg1$, $arg2$, $arg3$)`</param>
                                            <module name="JobProgressIndicator"/>
                                            <module name="ResultsHeader">
                                                <param name="entityName">scanned</param>
                                                <param name="entityLabel">Events</param>
                                            </module>
                                            <module name="HiddenChartFormatter">
                                                <param name="chart">line</param>
                                                <module name="FlashChart">
                                                    <param name="width">100%</param>
                                                </module>
                                            </module>
                                        </module>
                                    </module>
                                </module>
                            </module>
                        </module>
                    </module>
                </module>

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erydberg
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The arguments from the listers were consumed in the first search, so they need to be converted again, which means that I need two more ConvertToIntention: (Also, the " <param name="settingToConvert">arg3_setting</param>" in the arg3 converter was not needed but caused that conversion to fail.) The working xml looks like:

                <module name="HiddenSearch" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1" group="Group name">
                    <param name="search">`my_macro($arg1$, $arg2$)`</param>
                    <module name="ResultsHeader">
                        <param name="entityName">scanned</param>
                        <param name="entityLabel">Events</param>
                        <module name="SimpleResultsTable">
                            <param name="count">100</param>
                            <param name="displayMenu">True</param>
                            <param name="drilldown">row</param>
                            <module name="ConvertToIntention">
                                <param name="settingToConvert">arg1_setting</param>
                                <param name="intention">
                                    <param name="name">stringreplace</param>
                                    <param name="arg">
                                        <param name="arg1">
                                            <param name="value">$target$</param>
                                        </param>
                                    </param>
                                </param>
                                <module name="ConvertToIntention">
                                    <param name="settingToConvert">arg2_setting</param>
                                    <param name="intention">
                                        <param name="name">stringreplace</param>
                                        <param name="arg">
                                            <param name="arg2">
                                                <param name="value">$target$</param>
                                            </param>
                                        </param>
                                    </param>
                                    <module name="ConvertToIntention">
                                        <param name="intention">
                                            <param name="name">stringreplace</param>
                                            <param name="arg">
                                                <param name="arg3_file">
                                                    <param name="value">$click.value$</param>
                                                </param>
                                            </param>
                                        </param>
                                        <module name="HiddenSearch">
                                            <param name="search">`file_coverage($arg1$, $arg2$, $arg3$)`</param>
                                            <module name="JobProgressIndicator"/>
                                            <module name="ResultsHeader">
                                                <param name="entityName">scanned</param>
                                                <param name="entityLabel">Events</param>
                                            </module>
                                            <module name="HiddenChartFormatter">
                                                <param name="chart">line</param>
                                                <module name="FlashChart">
                                                    <param name="width">100%</param>
                                                </module>
                                            </module>
                                        </module>
                                    </module>
                                </module>
                            </module>
                        </module>
                    </module>
                </module>
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