How to pass static text or value to a drilldown?

[ahogbin]

Hello,

I am trying to pass a static value to another form but not having much luck

<drilldown target="My New Window">
          <link>
            <![CDATA[quotes_by_broker?form.token_range=$totalQuotes>=1 AND totalQuotes<=20$&earliest=$earliest$&latest=$latest$
       ]]>
          </link>
        </drilldown>

The drilldown is called when a user clicks on a value and should load a form (which it does) and populate the token_range field which in turn is then used in a search. The reason I am trying to pass a static value is that source dashboard displays results as a single value and I would like to then display the breakdown to the user in the linked dashboard.

The problem I have is that the new dashboard / form loads but the value populated into the token_range field is $totalQuotes> and nothing else.

I have tried adding $$ to the value but no joy.

Open to suggestions and any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Alastair

[lguinn2 · Accepted solution]

I don't think you can have spaces in a link. Plus, I don't know why you put all of the $ in there...
I would try

<![CDATA[quotes_by_broker?form.token_range="totalQuotes>=1 AND totalQuotes<=20"&earliest=$earliest$&latest=$latest$
        ]]>

But you may have to actually encode it by replacing spaces with %20.

[ahogbin]

Hello,

Thanks for the above but I have narrowed to the issue down to the '=' sign. For some reason this is getting stripped when the text is being passed across. If I remove the '=' sign then all works but the search returns the incorrect results.

Is there a way of stopping the sign from being removed ?

Cheers.

[ahogbin]

Found it .... adding %3D fixes the issue.