How can I pass a multivalue token value between dashboards and avoid the HTML encoding in the URL?

[andrewtrobec]

Hello everyone,

I am implementing a solution found here: How to pass multivalue tokens to other splunk dashboard URL 

This solution uses token play to construct a string using each selected multivalue value and then pass it to another dashboard.  I have managed to set up the framework, but it is not working as expected.  The problem in a nutshell is that the & and = characters in the token string are converted into their HTML encoding, %26 and %3D respectively.  This causes the receiving token to interpret it as a single value which of course is invalid.

Here is the code for two connected run anywhere dashboards that demonstrate the issue:

Sending side:

<form>
<label>Multipass</label>
<fieldset submitButton="false">
<input type="multiselect" token="tok_input">
<label>Input</label>
<choice value="*">All</choice>
<choice value="Value_1">Value_1</choice>
<choice value="Value_2">Value_2</choice>
<default>*</default>
<initialValue>*</initialValue>
<delimiter> </delimiter>
<change>
<set token="tok_input_send" delimiter="&amp;form.tok_input_received=">$value$</set>
</change>
</input>
</fieldset>
<row>
<panel>
<table>
<search>
<query>| makeresults
| eval values="$tok_input_send$"
| table values</query>
<earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
<latest>now</latest>
<sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
</search>
<option name="count">20</option>
<option name="dataOverlayMode">none</option>
<option name="drilldown">cell</option>
<option name="percentagesRow">false</option>
<option name="rowNumbers">false</option>
<option name="totalsRow">false</option>
<option name="wrap">true</option>
<drilldown>
<link target="_blank">/app/search/multipass_target?form.tok_input_received=$tok_input_send$</link>
</drilldown>
</table>
</panel>
</row>
</form>

Receiving side:

<form>
  <label>Multipass Target</label>
  <fieldset submitButton="false">
    <input type="multiselect" token="tok_input_received">
      <label>Input</label>
      <choice value="*">All</choice>
      <choice value="Value_1">Value_1</choice>
      <choice value="Value_2">Value_2</choice>
      <default>*</default>
      <initialValue>*</initialValue>
      <delimiter> </delimiter>
    </input>
  </fieldset>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <table>
        <search>
          <query>| makeresults
| eval values="$tok_input_received$"
| table values</query>
          <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
        <option name="count">20</option>
        <option name="dataOverlayMode">none</option>
        <option name="drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="percentagesRow">false</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
        <option name="rowNumbers">false</option>
        <option name="totalsRow">false</option>
        <option name="wrap">true</option>
      </table>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

You'll see that sending the following:

is interpreted like this:

Can somebody help to solve this approach, or propose another?

Thanks!

Andrew

[glpadilla_sol]

Hello I have the same issue but using href

for example:

</div>
<div style="float:right">
<a href="/app/search/request_alert?form.reporter_token=$reporter$ class="btn btn-primary" target="_blank">Request</a>
</div>

I need to pass the token $reporter$ as it is, without being encoded.

Thanks.

[Federico92 · Accepted solution]

Hi Andrew

Try to insert your multivalue token's link into <![CDATA and to add the "|n" character to your token value like this

<drilldown>
   <link target="_blank"><![CDATA[/app/<APP NAME>/<DASHBOARD TARGET NAME>form.<tok_name>=$<multivalue_token_name>|n$]]></link>
</drilldown>

It works for me!!

[andrewtrobec]

@Federico92 This works like a charm!  Thank you!

[paru25]

In the receiving dashboard try like this:

<input type="multiselect" token="tok_input_received">
      <label>Input</label>
      <choice value="*">All</choice>
      <choice value="Value_1">Value_1</choice>
      <choice value="Value_2">Value_2</choice>
      <default>$form.tok_input_received$</default>
      <initialValue>*</initialValue>
      <delimiter> </delimiter>
    </input>

[Nisha18789]

Hi @andrewtrobec , on the receiving dashboard you can use javascript to decode the encode url and reload the page.