Unicode characters when retrieving variables

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Hi,
I’m passing some parameter to the data link url as in the following:

http://localhost:3000/d/bdwaaebkbur5sa/integration-dashboard?refresh=10s&viewPanel=6&var-cronTime=0%200%2022%20%2A%20%2A%20%3F%EF%BB%BF&var-integration=%EF%BB%BFNationProgrammeMetadataFilesDownload

when I retrieve the value as a variable in the target dashboard Im getting the following:

integration:?NationGasProgrammeMetadataFilesDownload(incorrect)

instead of

integration:NationGasProgrammeMetadataFilesDownload (correct)

for the cronTime Im getting

image

instead of just
0 0 22 * * ?

I tried using some proposed solution like ${cronTime:raw} or ${cronTime:text} but that did not help.

Here how Im passing the values in the data link:



http://localhost:3000/d/bdwaaebkbur5sa/nifi-integration-dashboard?refresh=10s&viewPanel=6&var-cronTime=${__field.labels.cronTime}&var-integration=${__data.fields["integration"]}

Im using version 11.2

Can someone please help?
Thanks

2

are you using your out of the box grafana variable as a drop down?

3

Hi,
It seems those unicode are coming from copy and paste. In some case I believe it happened when I used the auto completion when typing the data link url param as well but I could not reproduce. I will close the ticket and if I ran into this situation where Im able to re produce from within Grafana I will re open or submit new issue with the steps. Sorry for the false alarm.

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