https://community.splunk.com/t5/Other-Usage/Why-is-Dashboards-showing-csv-files-in-dropdown-input/m-p/655901#M686 <P>Sure you can do that - you can either populate the dropdown with static options with the month name and add the .csv on the end for the value, e.g.</P><LI-CODE lang="markup"> &lt;input type="dropdown" token="month"&gt; &lt;label&gt;Month&lt;/label&gt; &lt;choice value="july"&gt;July&lt;/choice&gt; &lt;choice value="august"&gt;August&lt;/choice&gt; ... more choices &lt;/input&gt;</LI-CODE><P>then your search is</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">| inputlookup $month$.csv ...</LI-CODE><P>or you could make your lookup dynamic and look for lookups that match a pattern, e.g.</P><LI-CODE lang="markup"> &lt;input type="dropdown" token="month"&gt; &lt;label&gt;Month&lt;/label&gt; &lt;search&gt; &lt;query&gt; | rest splunk_server=local /servicesNS/-/-/data/lookup-table-files | where 'eai:acl.app'="your_app_name" | fields title | where match(title, "^(january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|november|december).csv$") | eval month=replace(title, "\.csv", ""), month=upper(substr(month, 1,1)).substr(month, 2) &lt;/query&gt; &lt;/search&gt; &lt;fieldForLabel&gt;month&lt;/fieldForLabel&gt; &lt;fieldForValue&gt;title&lt;/fieldForValue&gt; &lt;/input&gt; </LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:19:14 GMT bowesmana 2023-08-28T23:19:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Other-Usage/Why-is-Dashboards-showing-csv-files-in-dropdown-input/m-p/655891#M685 <DIV class=""> <DIV class=""> <P>Good afternoon,</P> <P>I am trying to show information from a csv which is static, but will be replaced as time goes on I awas wondering there was a way to make the CSV filenames a dropdown option in an input which would correlate in the searches below in the dashboard.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>For example</P> <P>Input dropdown values:</P> <P>july.csv</P> <P>august.csv</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>And the search would be</P> <P>| inputlookup $august.csv$ ...</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Is this an option or is there a better way to do this?</P> </DIV> </DIV> Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:11:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Other-Usage/Why-is-Dashboards-showing-csv-files-in-dropdown-input/m-p/655891#M685 splunk_user4 2023-08-30T16:11:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Other-Usage/Why-is-Dashboards-showing-csv-files-in-dropdown-input/m-p/655901#M686 <P>Sure you can do that - you can either populate the dropdown with static options with the month name and add the .csv on the end for the value, e.g.</P><LI-CODE lang="markup"> &lt;input type="dropdown" token="month"&gt; &lt;label&gt;Month&lt;/label&gt; &lt;choice value="july"&gt;July&lt;/choice&gt; &lt;choice value="august"&gt;August&lt;/choice&gt; ... more choices &lt;/input&gt;</LI-CODE><P>then your search is</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">| inputlookup $month$.csv ...</LI-CODE><P>or you could make your lookup dynamic and look for lookups that match a pattern, e.g.</P><LI-CODE lang="markup"> &lt;input type="dropdown" token="month"&gt; &lt;label&gt;Month&lt;/label&gt; &lt;search&gt; &lt;query&gt; | rest splunk_server=local /servicesNS/-/-/data/lookup-table-files | where 'eai:acl.app'="your_app_name" | fields title | where match(title, "^(january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|november|december).csv$") | eval month=replace(title, "\.csv", ""), month=upper(substr(month, 1,1)).substr(month, 2) &lt;/query&gt; &lt;/search&gt; &lt;fieldForLabel&gt;month&lt;/fieldForLabel&gt; &lt;fieldForValue&gt;title&lt;/fieldForValue&gt; &lt;/input&gt; </LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:19:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Other-Usage/Why-is-Dashboards-showing-csv-files-in-dropdown-input/m-p/655901#M686 bowesmana 2023-08-28T23:19:14Z