topic Re: default value for dropdown in Dashboards & Visualizations

default value for dropdown

surekhasplunk — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 06:51:08 GMT

I have set default values for dropdown as all and have set as panel condition
Then i have a readio button for selection of both which i have set for table condition.
Now when i first time load my dashboard then by default i want to see all my panels which is not working
first i have to change value in the dropdown then only it starts working
Has anyone faced this issue ?

Re: default value for dropdown

niketn — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:20:13 GMT

@surekhasplunk, is the searchWhenChanged set to false? Can you share dashboard code?

Re: default value for dropdown

surekhasplunk — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:16:17 GMT

<input type="dropdown" token="dropregion" searchWhenChanged="true">
  <label>REGION</label>
   <choice value="ALL">ALL</choice>
    <condition match="$dropregion$==&quot;ALL&quot;">
      <set token="dropuk">1</set>
      <set token="dropemea">1</set>
      <set token="dropapac">1</set>
      <set token="dropindia">1</set>
      <set token="dropglobal">1</set>
    </condition>
    <condition match="$dropregion$==&quot;UK&quot;">
      <set token="dropuk">1</set>

....

This token i have set as condition of panel dependent

<input type="radio" token="button" searchWhenChanged="true">
  <label>RUN/CHANGE BANK</label>

This token is set for table dependent.

<panel depends="$dropuk$">
  <title>RTB</title>
  <table depends="$run$">

Re: default value for dropdown

niketn — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:42:35 GMT

@surekhasplunk, I can not see default value being set for either dropdown or radio. Can you please confirm whether you are defaulting these on form load or not?

Also your table is depended on token $run$, which I am not sure as to how the same is set.

If you are on Splunk 6.5 or higher, you can use <init> section in Simple XML to set some default values for required tokens on form load

<init>
    <set token="dropuk">1</set>
    <set token="button">...
    ...
</init>

Refer to Splunk documentation: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Viz/tokens#Guidelines

Re: default value for dropdown

surekhasplunk — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:43:00 GMT

Cheers !!! this init method worked

Re: default value for dropdown

niketn — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:22:21 GMT

Glad it worked!!! I have converted to Answer. Please accept! 🙂