Simple question I hope.
I have a dashboard that uses many tokens from input drop downs, which allow the user to cause all dashboard elements to only consider events that match all the drop downs. In my dashboard elements I end up having to put long conditions, such as (made up example):
where ("$color$"="all" or "$color$"=color) and ("$type$"="all" or type="$type$") and ("$size$"="all" or size="$size$") and ....
In an effort to reduce how many times I need to copy/update this large list of conditions across all the dashboard elements, I was hoping I could define a token like this:
<init>
<set token="cond">
("$color$"="all" or "$color$"=color) and ("$type$"="all" or type="$type$") and ("$size$"="all" or size="$size$") and ....
</set>
</init>
That appeared to work by just putting a "where $cond$" in each element instead of the long condition, but now my dashboard elements didn't react to changes in the drop downs. So I tried using $$ instead for the "cond" definition, but this causes all elements to return no results. I figure this is probably because the inner tokens are not being substituted for their proper values. Is there a way to cause this second level of substitution to happen? Or, is there another way I can accomplish the same goal of defining my large condition in a single place?
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