Dashboards & Visualizations

Searchtemplate on a form for a dashboard and eval

asarolkar
Builder

I get the following error when I try to use "eval" inside my searchTemplate for an interactive dashboard that I am building.



Encountered the following error while trying to update: In handler 'views': Error parsing XML on line 13: StartTag: invalid element name

< form >


< searchtemplate >


sourcetype="syslog" | ... |
eval range=case( (date_hour>=3 AND date_hour<=4), "in", (date_hour<3 OR date_hour>4), "out" ) | timechart ... | eval ...

< /searchtemplate >

< /form>




Anybody know what would cause that exception to be thrown as soon as I try to add the first eval ?

Does < searchTemplate > not like an eval ?

Thanks

sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

< and > are special characters in XML, so you have to escape them.

You can either replace your < characters with &lt; and your > characters with &gt;

or you can wrap the entire contents of the element in what is called a CDATA block, such that the entire block looks like this:

<searchtemplate><![CDATA[

sourcetype="syslog" | ... | eval range=case( (date_hour>=3 AND date_hour<=4), "in", (date_hour<3 OR date_hour>4), "out" ) | timechart ... | eval ...
]]>

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