splunk 6: form submit no longer triggered by pressing enter

[dominiquevocat]

the behaviour of forms seems to have changed in splunk 6, in previous versions one could hit enter to submit the form search button... is there a way to change this default behaviour?

[wrangler2x]

You can make it accept enter by adding searchWhenChanged="true" to the input line. Two examples for you -- the first a text input and the second a timepicker (so you don't have to submit, just change the time and the search runs):

Text input:

<input type="text" token="UCInetID" searchWhenChanged="true"/>

Time picker:

<input type="time" searchWhenChanged="true">
          <default>Last 4 hours</default>
 </input>

On the text input, hitting return will cause the search to run.

[wrangler2x]

I just ran across an old input form which did not allow to execute on a text input. I made the change I mentioned above and it works great. If you tried this and it worked for you, please vote this up.

[helge]

The UX is a lot better if the user, after having changed some search text in a text input can simply press ENTER without having to click "Submit". Removing the submit button is not an option where longer running searches are involved.

[nfilippi_splunk]

You can remove the submit button entirely, which would submit all form inputs when any change is made.

It would look like this:

[dominiquevocat]

hi, certainly worth a look.
i do have forms where there is a text inputfield and a time range picker... the searches are costly since it involves several dbx backends and several costly ldap queries (realtime) so i am not sure if it is a good workarround. I really would like to have the form.submit button be the default for pressing enter in a form text field.

[helenashton]

Did you find any way to get this to work? I am using Simple XML (with JS), and would like to have the same functionality.

[dominiquevocat]

Nope, we just live with it. Incidentally i will close the question.