### Author:  [@mybluedog24](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mybluedog24)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urlparam-in-pdf-generate-post-url-not-working/252294/1 "2020-10-16T04:31:44Z")
Hi,
I have tried to add urlparam in generate PDF POST url, but it doesn't work. It works fine without urlparam.
I added the urlparam to the POST url manually:
```auto
https://xxxxx.ca-central-1.aws.elastic-cloud.com:9243/api/reporting/generate/printablePdf?jobParams=(browserTimezone:America%2FPhoenix,layout:(dimensions:(height:792,width:612),id:preserve_layout),objectType:'canvas%20workpad',relativeUrls:!(%2Fapp%2Fcanvas%3FmyVar%3D1w%23%2Fexport%2Fworkpad%2Fpdf%2Fworkpad-6af74cef-477e-4191-a579-d5d0f87decbf%2Fpage%2F1),title:'Hokaho%20Report')
```
The return json looks good, the param is in the `relativeUrl`:
```json
{
"path": "/api/reporting/jobs/download/kgbqyyge000q334cc0f5xo31",
"job": {
"id": "kgbqyyge000q334cc0f5xo31",
"index": ".reporting-2020-10-11",
"_seq_no": 78,
"_primary_term": 3,
"jobtype": "printable_pdf",
"created_by": "elastic",
"payload": {
"basePath": "",
"browserTimezone": "America/Phoenix",
"forceNow": "2020-10-16T04:23:48.204Z",
"headers": "",
"layout": {
"dimensions": {
"height": 792,
"width": 612
},
"id": "preserve_layout"
},
"objects": [
{
"relativeUrl": "/app/canvas?myVar=1w#/export/workpad/pdf/workpad-6af74cef-477e-4191-a579-d5d0f87decbf/page/1"
}
],
"title": "Hokaho Report",
"type": "canvas workpad"
},
"timeout": 120000,
"max_attempts": 3,
"priority": 10,
"browser_type": "chromium"
}
}
```
Then use the path to get the pdf, it returns 500 even I increased the timeout:
```json
{
"statusCode": 500,
"error": "Internal Server Error",
"message": "Reporting generation failed: Max attempts reached (3)"
}
```
```auto
xpack.reporting.queue.timeout: 120000
```
I coped the relativeUrl in browser it works fine.
I'm not sure if that's the correct way to add urlparam in the POST url. If not, how can I pass url param in the POST url?
Thanks,
Frank
---
### Author:  [@poff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/poff)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urlparam-in-pdf-generate-post-url-not-working/252294/2 "2020-10-19T22:37:38Z")
Hey there Frank,
What Kibana/ES version are you currently running? Do you get any errors in your Kibana log from your reporting plugin?
Additionally, if you manually navigate to the relative URL in the JSON response, does that throw a 500? (You should have the canvas workpad page load up)
I was running kibana/ES locally on my machine and was able to follow your steps and had a PDF generated without issue. I'm using the main branch in Kibana, however, so I suspect we're using different versions.
---
### Author:  [@mybluedog24](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mybluedog24)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urlparam-in-pdf-generate-post-url-not-working/252294/3 "2020-10-21T16:48:41Z")
Hi,
Thanks for reply. I'm running version 7.9.0. Sorry I'm new to ES not sure where to check the reporting plugin. But the Kibana crashed after I request 2-3 times with params in URL and automatically restarted. Also my shards count increased from 64 to 100, looks like Kibana created a few indexes. If I manually navigate to the relative URL it works fine. It generated the poster with the params in URL. Only using the POST URL doesn't work and crashed.
Here are the last two documents in the reporting index:
```json
{
"_index" : ".reporting-2020-10-11",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "kgbnx1tg000q11971d9xdkrk",
"_score" : 1.0,
"_source" : {
"jobtype" : "printable_pdf",
"meta" : {
"objectType" : "canvas workpad",
"layout" : "preserve_layout"
},
"payload" : {
"basePath" : "",
"browserTimezone" : "America/Phoenix",
"forceNow" : "2020-10-16T02:58:20.344Z",
"headers" : "a very long string",
"layout" : {
"dimensions" : {
"height" : 792,
"width" : 612
},
"id" : "preserve_layout"
},
"objects" : [
{
"relativeUrl" : "/app/canvas?myVar=1w#/export/workpad/pdf/workpad-6af74cef-477e-4191-a579-d5d0f87decbf/page/1"
}
],
"title" : "Hokaho Report",
"type" : "canvas workpad"
},
"created_by" : "elastic",
"timeout" : 120000,
"process_expiration" : "2020-10-16T03:04:27.244Z",
"created_at" : "2020-10-16T02:58:20.404Z",
"attempts" : 3,
"max_attempts" : 3,
"status" : "failed",
"browser_type" : "chromium",
"kibana_id" : "812f46e4-d62e-4d59-a317-9b76a1469192",
"kibana_name" : "4555e844d3aa",
"started_at" : "2020-10-16T03:02:27.244Z",
"output" : {
"content_type" : false,
"content" : "Max attempts reached (3)"
},
"completed_at" : "2020-10-16T03:04:30.269Z"
}
},
{
"_index" : ".reporting-2020-10-11",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "kgbnccr8000z11971d0048kh",
"_score" : 1.0,
"_source" : {
"jobtype" : "printable_pdf",
"meta" : {
"objectType" : "canvas workpad",
"layout" : "preserve_layout"
},
"payload" : {
"basePath" : "",
"browserTimezone" : "America/Phoenix",
"forceNow" : "2020-10-16T02:42:14.722Z",
"headers" : "",
"layout" : {
"dimensions" : {
"height" : 792,
"width" : 612
},
"id" : "preserve_layout"
},
"objects" : [
{
"relativeUrl" : "/app/canvas?myVal=1w#/export/workpad/pdf/workpad-6af74cef-477e-4191-a579-d5d0f87decbf/page/1"
}
],
"title" : "Hokaho Report",
"type" : "canvas workpad"
},
"created_by" : "elastic",
"timeout" : 120000,
"process_expiration" : "2020-10-16T02:51:07.715Z",
"created_at" : "2020-10-16T02:42:14.804Z",
"attempts" : 2,
"max_attempts" : 3,
"status" : "failed",
"browser_type" : "chromium",
"kibana_id" : "812f46e4-d62e-4d59-a317-9b76a1469192",
"kibana_name" : "4555e844d3aa",
"started_at" : "2020-10-16T02:49:07.715Z",
"output" : {
"content_type" : false,
"content" : "Error: Protocol error (Page.captureScreenshot): Internal error"
},
"completed_at" : "2020-10-16T02:50:08.624Z"
}
}
```
Here are the indexes Kibana generated:
```auto
green open .apm-agent-configuration 2WkTMKzvSq-IqIFyo0cPMQ 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open .apm-custom-link VtenBNxBQKSMqTOQb7cfVA 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open .async-search flwXGLYyQMikPSl7qrGTeQ 1 1 0 0 530b 265b
green open .kibana-event-log-7.9.0-000001 zFneWq91QOmvLD7Tt9IqaQ 1 1 2 0 21.9kb 10.9kb
green open .kibana-event-log-7.9.0-000002 olEEb_zURvSxCIJFaxbLoA 1 1 4 0 32.7kb 16.3kb
green open .kibana-event-log-7.9.0-000003 d_8wlqAeSBS1s0pMbWmJ_g 1 1 0 0 416b 208b
green open .kibana_1 TpXzEBbMQ_SyXo8clSIKBQ 1 1 1729 270 172.3mb 85mb
green open .kibana_task_manager_1 MZES2753Rc2I9i4eYCn9yQ 1 1 6 26 2.5mb 163.4kb
green open .reporting-2020-10-11 9zsRdq-7T4SGSwWenAR4jA 1 1 21 5 4.8mb 2.4mb
green open .security-7 kCqb_qlaT62zpFqCP5kW-g 1 1 52 0 258.4kb 128.8kb
green open .security-tokens-7 JVqeDoPNTsmXs-9E5XgW1Q 1 1 52 1 205.2kb 102.6kb
green open apm-7.9.0-error-000001 t-yFzR1ASxupwSMsUmw99Q 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-error-000002 XBJy_W-pRHSH69wQJgHzgA 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-error-000003 AfYv54sWQEqAJDr8hIl29w 1 1 0 0 416b 208b
green open apm-7.9.0-metric-000001 6rYY0T5SS-SmjintljugFQ 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-metric-000002 8nXymsOoSPOCSRjvrmQzag 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-metric-000003 lkaAkY1kTCG6KUBk1K5Jlw 1 1 0 0 416b 208b
green open apm-7.9.0-onboarding-2020.08.21 VOgXBotySXiNrBECb8ycXw 1 1 1 0 14.7kb 7.3kb
green open apm-7.9.0-profile-000001 P_qT63M0TM6k33tx2YPpjQ 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-profile-000002 ml8WHLtQSr-7GA84h_kZ9A 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-profile-000003 NzZe9bUWR1qKPbWNO0fvyA 1 1 0 0 416b 208b
green open apm-7.9.0-span-000001 pZY-3Q2XR4aIj5mjq1HIAQ 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-span-000002 G41j3iZqT3qjWMMtpMpLpg 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-span-000003 ckl0TBg5RYSOtbtFezx2hw 1 1 0 0 416b 208b
green open apm-7.9.0-transaction-000001 ZYDvnfsLTj6CkS9i1sNseQ 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-transaction-000002 GIU8mHu4SOmKifTOHNTgcw 1 1 0 0 522b 261b
green open apm-7.9.0-transaction-000003 V-gYxh1STGSb2ecLd6bVOA 1 1 0 0 416b 208b
```
Sorry I don't know how to print out my configuration so just took a screenshot:
Thanks,
Frank
---
### Author:  [@mybluedog24](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mybluedog24)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urlparam-in-pdf-generate-post-url-not-working/252294/4 "2020-10-21T17:14:02Z")
I just tried again, it looks like the report can't take urlparam input in POST URL. I tried keep the params in URL but remove the code `{urlparam "myVar"}`, it works fine with the POST URL. But once I use `{urlparam "myVar"}` then it doesn't work with the POST URL, but works by navigate the relative URL. Maybe the POST URL filtered url parameters when generating poster? Here is my query:
```auto
filters
| timelion
query=".es(q='Sp_dol:>0 AND Municipality.keyword:Toronto',index=rets_*_*d*property,timefield=Cd,metric=avg:Sp_dol)" interval={urlparam "myVar"}
| tail 2
| math "first(@timestamp)"
| formatdate "MM/DD/YYYY"
| markdown {context}
| render
```
Thanks,
Frank
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/urlparam-in-pdf-generate-post-url-not-working/252294/5 "2020-11-18T17:14:06Z")
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