Installation

Forms/Views behaviour after Splunk 6 Upgrade

mantockd
Explorer

I have just upgraded to Splunk 6.0. When I do a form search it has completely different behaviour in comparison to Splunk 5.

In Splunk 5 blank fields were like behaving as if there was * in the search query and all results were returned. Now if I do the same thing in Splunk 6.0 I get this error:

Search query is not fully resolved.

Even when I just launch the view I get the same error.

mantockd
Explorer

Yes this is

flavor of Simple XML

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melting
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yeah this is a subtle change in the two versions

To work around use an empty default:

<input type="text" token="get3">
    <label>Get from drilldown: Count</label>
    <default></default>
</input>

mantockd
Explorer

I should have more accurately stated, this does solve the problem when searching, if I take * as the default, but the problem still remains on launching the form.

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mantockd
Explorer

flavor of Simple XML

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melting
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

What is your xml?

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mantockd
Explorer

This did not resolve the problem.

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sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Is this view written in the <form> flavor of Simple XML?

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