setup.xml custom endpoint label newline

[klee310]

I'm trying to put a newline in my label tag in for one of the inputs. Not sure how the newline character should be specified.

This is what I have:

<input field="general_log_encoding_string">
 <label>
 Custom character-encoding name if different from default, ex. BIG-5
 \n\r
 See http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding for details</label>
 <type>text</type>
</input>

But the result comes out like this:

Custom character-encoding name if different from default, ex. BIG-5 \n\r See http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding for details

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

[klee310]

I've checked everywhere, and there doesn't seem to be a solution anywhere. I guess I'll just give up this function. Its bells-and-whistles anyways.

[LukeMurphey]

You can do this using a break or paragraph tag. However, you will need to put your HTML in CDATA blocks so that it is ignored by Splunk's XML parser. Below is an updated version of your sample:

<input field="general_log_encoding_string">
 <text>
 Custom character-encoding name if different from default, ex. BIG-5
 <![CDATA[<p>]]> <!-- Note the custom HTML included here -->
 See http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding for details</text>
 <type>text</type>
</input>

[LukeMurphey]

Check the internal error log. Open the search app and run a search for:

index=_internal error

[klee310]

not quite sure what you're trying to get at. if I replace the label tag with the text tag, the setup.xml screen doesn't even load up. AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

[LukeMurphey]

Try putting the comment in in a text tag as opposed to a label tag. i.e. ...

[klee310]

tried that, and this is what i get:
Custom character-encoding name if different from default, ex. BIG-5

See http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding for details