Splunk Developer's Guide - Second Edition

Tokenization

Tokenization refers to the use of tokens within a dashboard. A token is a placeholder for a value within a dashboard. These placeholders can be dynamically updated within the dashboard. Searches and other objects can access these values using a special syntax. The basic syntax is to surround the token variable name with $. So, for example, if you defined a TextInputView earlier, and assigned it the token name myText, then you would reference the value as $myText$.

There are a few different ways to generate token values within a dashboard. These generally include ways to do the following:

• Define tokens to capture input values for forms.
• Define tokens to specify conditional actions based on the value of the token.
• Define tokens within a ...