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  1. ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
  2. ZBX-6737

Better documentation for {MACRO<1-9>} syntax

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      On a page https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/appendix/macros/supported_by_location
      we have a lot of such macros. Some macros have useful description, I mean details about "...of the Nth item in the trigger expression that caused a notification"
      I've counted 8 of them and they are related to notifications only.

      But we have there a lot of other macros with similar syntax

      {MACRO<1-9>}

      and they supported not only for notifications !

      Sometimes users can suppose that for example

      {HOST.CONN2}

      could be used in item key parameters and should return a secondary host interface details.
      A proof https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40581
      By the secondary interface I mean a not main host interface.

      To avoid such misunderstanding I suggest to add some general description of such macro syntax on pages:
      https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/appendix/macros/supported_by_location
      https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/config/notifications/action/operation/macros

            martins-v Martins Valkovskis
            zalex_ua Oleksii Zagorskyi
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