Knowledge Management

macro with localop?

vbumgarner
Contributor

Is there any way to start a macro with a generator command? I get the error "The command must be the first command of a search."

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hazekamp
Builder

Vincent,

You can have macros that make use of generating commands, but the error is likely correct in that certain search commands (i.e. metadata) must be the first command of a search.

## macros.conf
[metadata]
definition = metadata type=hosts index=*
iseval = 0

## search
| `metadata`

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hazekamp
Builder

Vincent,

You can have macros that make use of generating commands, but the error is likely correct in that certain search commands (i.e. metadata) must be the first command of a search.

## macros.conf
[metadata]
definition = metadata type=hosts index=*
iseval = 0

## search
| `metadata`
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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It is lame. Can you do it if you make it into an iseval=1 definition returning a string?

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vbumgarner
Contributor

We figured that out, but it's kinda lame. It'd be nice to have the pipe in the definition.

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