My question is fairly identical to this old one here: http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/83479/pass-foo-value-to-textfield-default
It seems that user was having the same problem as me, and his issue did not appear to get resolved.
I have a view that looks pretty much like this: bpaste.net/show/kDAzkyf0yiOGc1geSM5p/
I want the Textfields to display URL parameter values as their default value.
When I visit the URL with parameters like "/app/search/viewname?IP=1.1.1.1&time=whatever", the HTML module properly substitutes the $foo$ values ($IP$ and $time$), but the Textfields simply remain blank. They are definitely spelled and cased properly. I also tried adding a "default" param to each Textfield, but that does not work ($IP$ remains as a literal $IP$).
I am running the latest versions of both Sideview and Splunk.