How to get a dashboard input token to handle values that contain spaces?

[Zerophage]

Hi all, new to Splunk.

I have a Dashboard Input with a token which is assigned a value which can be a string with spaces. For example it might be a subject of an email like "RE: How was work".

Now I have a search in the same dashboard which uses that token like message_subject=$search_subject$ but it returns nothing. I suspect it is due to the spaces in the value and i need to add quotes to the token.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks!

[Zerophage]

Thanks! Why did I not think of that, was trying all sorts other than the most obvious haha.

[gcusello · Accepted solution]

Hi Zerophage,
if spaces are the problem, try using brackets:

message_subject="$search_subject$"

Bye.
Giuseppe