Inbuilt Panel reference with token

[TotalNoobie]

Hi 
Very first question.
I have created an inbuilt panel and I didn't want to hardcode the name in the ref parameter
Splunk doesn't like the following
any ideas? or advice?


<init>

  <set token="PageName">help_for_toy</set>

</init>

  <row>

     <panel id="help" ref="$PageName$" ></panel>

  </row>

[ITWhisperer · Accepted solution]

As @bowesmana says, it looks like you can't use tokens in references. This is likely because the structure of the dashboard needs to be known when the dashboard is loaded, and while it appears to be static in your example, the value of the token could be changed during the running of the dashboard, so to prevent this, the reference has to be static.

So, the question now is, why are you trying to do this? Perhaps there is another way to solve your usecase!

[bowesmana]

Interesting, it does look like you can't use a token as an attribute value in XML. Not sure if that can be changed