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Why am I receiving error while adding query to dashboard?

Macky_29
Explorer

Hi Experts, 

While adding below query to my dashboard i am getting error saying  

 

|eval Category=case (Ratings>"8","Promoter",Ratings > "7","Detractor",Ratings > "6" AND Ratings < "9", "Passive")

Error: Unencoded <

Macky_29_0-1675029081860.png

 

Regards

Mayank

 

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Inside the XML you need to escape characters

so 

|eval Category=case (Ratings &gt; "8","Promoter",Ratings &gt;  "7","Detractor",Ratings &gt;  "6" AND Ratings &lt; "9", "Passive")

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091945/what-characters-do-i-need-to-escape-in-xml-documents#:~:....

Actually you don't need to escape the > to &gt; but it's probably good practice.

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SanjayReddy
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @Macky_29 

Below is the mapping of special characters with html entty, either you can use mapping word

enclose the query in cdata tags

<![CDATA[
<content_with_special_characters>
]]>

 

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Viz/OverviewofSimplifiedXML

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Inside the XML you need to escape characters

so 

|eval Category=case (Ratings &gt; "8","Promoter",Ratings &gt;  "7","Detractor",Ratings &gt;  "6" AND Ratings &lt; "9", "Passive")

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091945/what-characters-do-i-need-to-escape-in-xml-documents#:~:....

Actually you don't need to escape the > to &gt; but it's probably good practice.

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