Default Date XML

[hxa27]

Hi,

I am trying to create a dashboard which I can show different dashboards in one by changing the date range and other parameters. Everything is working fine, but there is one problem am trying to solve. The problem is I want to have a default date of Today's date (for the End Date) and 30 days before today's date (for starting Date). My dashboard is calling a stored procedure in the database and it has three parameters to run successfully. Here is part of my XML:

04/01/2014
Select a Start Date:


05/01/2014
Select a End Date:

So, how can I set up the EndDate to be Today's date and the StartDate to be 30 days before today's date??

Any help or suggestion is appreciated

Thanks

[somesoni2]

I am not aware of any option to assign dynamic value to input of type text. One workaround could be to convert these text input to dropdown input and run a query to get the values. That way it would be dynamic and you can control the format. An example would be like this. [In Splunk 5.x, the value should be selected by default in the dropdown. In Splunk 6.0, it will not select any value and user would have to select a value. In Splunk 6.0.1 onwards, you would have to add <selectFirstChoice>true</selectFirstChoice> to the dropdown inputs to select the value by default.

<form>
  <label>Test</label>
  <fieldset>
  <input type="dropdown" token="startdate">
    <label>StartDate</label>
    <populatingSearch fieldForValue="startdate" fieldForLabel="startdate">
      <![CDATA[|stats count | eval startdate=strftime(now(),"%m/%d/%Y") | table startdate ]]>
    </populatingSearch>
  </input>
    <input type="dropdown" token="enddate">
    <label>EndDate</label>
    <populatingSearch fieldForValue="enddate" fieldForLabel="enddate">
      <![CDATA[|stats count | eval enddate=strftime(relative_time(now(),"-30d"),"%m/%d/%Y") | table enddate ]]>
    </populatingSearch>
  </input>
</fieldset>
  <row>
    <table>
      <searchString>index=_internal | stats count by sourcetype</searchString>
      <earliestTime>-5m@m</earliestTime>
    </table>
  </row>
</form>

[jossplacencia]

What if I want 5 days before today and today in my dropdown?
could you please help me?

[hxa27]

The time range picker does not work because of the time format differences between the database and Splunk. so, the answer you posted won't work in my case