In Splunk dashboard, how can I get todays date as default value in string?

[Chandras11]

Hi All,

I have a dashboard and text input to provide the date as the "YYYY-MM-DD" (For example 2018-06-15) format.
However, for the default value, I have given a static value. I want to get today's date in the default value (with now() function). However, Splunk tells that a query is not possible in the default field. Can anyone please tell me, how can I put today's date in the default value.

" fieldset autoRun="true" submitButton="false">
    input type="text" token="Year_Month_Day_t">
     label>Enter the date as YYYY-MM-DD 
     /label>
      default>2018-06-15 /default>
    /input>
  /fieldset "

P:S. I removed the first < in all tags (for example fieldset, input type, label, default, etc) as Splunk answer was not letting me paste the codes with tags. My concern is for default>2018-06-15 /default> where I want to give today's date from the system.

Thanks a lot for the help.

[renjith_nair · Accepted solution]

Try this

<form>
  <search>
    <query>| makeresults|eval today=strftime(_time,"%Y-%m-%d")|fields - _time</query>
    <done>
      <set token="defaut_time">$result.today$</set>
    </done>
  </search>
  <fieldset submitButton="false">
    <input type="text" token="field1">
      <label>field1</label>
      <default>$defaut_time$</default>
    </input>
  </fieldset>
</form>

Run a dummy search and set a token and use the token in default field

[Chandras11]

Thanks a lot. I already have a query where I am calculating todays date. Let me check it in my code 🙂

[Chandras11]

Working like a charm 🙂 now I can easily put relative time, current week, month etc : ) just a small modification can be : eval today=strftime(now(),"%Y-%m-%d")