How to make Splunkjs use variable in SearchManager search?

[sboogaar]

In one of our dashboard we have a table with a custom action, When the user clicks on a field we check if it is the delete field and if so get the name of the field we want to delete.

We can put it in a javascript variable.

We also have a search that needs to use this variable.

Something like: where someVariable is update in a function.

    
    var someVariable = ""
    var validateChannelCanBeDeletedSearch = new SearchManager({
       id: "validate something",
       autostart: false,
       search: `| inputlookup some
       | search some_field="${someVariable}"`
   });
   
   

 Later we manually trigger the search. The problem is that the update value of someVariable is not used in the query. How can we make it use the updated value.

[kamlesh_vaghela]

@sboogaar 

if someVariable is a javascript variable then try this.

var someVariable = "";
var validateChannelCanBeDeletedSearch = new SearchManager({
    id: "validate something",
    autostart: false,
    search: '| inputlookup some | search some_field="'+someVariable+'"' // someVariable is javascript variable
}, { tokens: true, tokenNamespace: "submitted" });

if someVariable is token then try this

var validateChannelCanBeDeletedSearch = new SearchManager({
    id: "validate something",
    autostart: false,
    search: '| inputlookup some | search some_field="$someVariable$"' // someVariable is token
}, { tokens: true, tokenNamespace: "submitted" });

to trigger search execution use the below line of code.

// execute below code in any event
validateChannelCanBeDeletedSearch.startSearch();

I hope this will help you.

Thanks
KV
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