How to view what values are passed through to a Search Query Variable from a web part

Hi there! :)

Please refer to the link below for more information on how to troubleshoot these type of issues.

Reference: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tothesharepoint/2013/05/23/stage-10-configure-the-query-in-a-content-search-web-part-on-a-catalog-item-page/

unfortunately I don't get the option to change query in the web part tool pane. I guess this is because it's a custom web part. clicking on Edit Snippet I see this:

<script>
        (function() {
            var options = {"ID":"ppcWebparts5","title":"IT Team News","sourceNames":"All News:Legal,Social,Chief Executive;Department News:All","maxItems":4,"shortSummaryLength":250,"longSummaryLength":440};
            ppc.Core.loadPart2("NewsHub", options);
        })();
</script>

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I've found the javascript file for this type of custom web part. Basically it parses the above and the one that fails is Department News as this is supposed to be configured to run the Department News result source.

From a more generic perspective though, this link you've given doesn't give me a method of what is being passed through from that page web part through to the query result source query variable. It's relatively easy to gather the URLToken values as you can see them at the top of the browser window. Not so easy with {page.title} for example which is what I'm trying to establish to be honest. It may well be the wrong variable I should be using.

Hi, are you querying some database? The webpart is it an SSRS report or what? I believe your answer will very depending on what technology your using inside this webpart. Hope that helps.