topic How to Use Static Dropdowns in Dashboard in Dashboards & Visualizations

How to Use Static Dropdowns in Dashboard

katzr — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:49:15 GMT

Hello,

So I have data with Regions and as of now- I have a region called A that needs to be mapped as region AA and AB. Region AA and AB have different countries in them. I want to filter my report on region AA or region AB. I am trying to create a static drop down that includes specific countries in AA or AB. I also have regions C, D, E that can remain the same in the data and use a dynamic filter for those. Is there anyway to do this? I tried creating multiple static options but then AA appeared multiple times in my drop down filter. Thank you for the help!

Re: How to Use Static Dropdowns in Dashboard

somesoni2 — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:54:04 GMT

Can you share your dropdown xml code, your current search (showing how that token is used), current and expected mock output?

Re: How to Use Static Dropdowns in Dashboard

katzr — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:06:30 GMT

 </input>
<input type="multiselect" token="reg">
  <label>Region</label>
  <search>
    <query>index=it_snow_call_kiosk_logs_weekly  | stats count by region</query>
  </search>
  <fieldForLabel>region</fieldForLabel>
  <fieldForValue>region</fieldForValue>
  <prefix>(</prefix>
  <suffix>)</suffix>
  <valuePrefix>region="</valuePrefix>
  <valueSuffix>"</valueSuffix>
  <delimiter> OR </delimiter>
  <choice value="*">All</choice>
  <default>*</default>
</input>
<input type="multiselect" token="country">
  <label>Country</label>
  <search>
    <query>index=it_snow_call_kiosk_logs_weekly $reg$ | stats count by caller_id_location_country</query>
    <earliest>0</earliest>
  </search>
  <fieldForLabel>caller_id_location_country</fieldForLabel>
  <fieldForValue>caller_id_location_country</fieldForValue>
  <prefix>(</prefix>
  <suffix>)</suffix>
  <valuePrefix>caller_id_location_country="</valuePrefix>
  <valueSuffix>"</valueSuffix>
  <delimiter> OR </delimiter>
  <choice value="*">All</choice>
  <default>*</default>
</input>
<input type="multiselect" token="loc">
  <label>Location</label>
  <search>
    <query>index=it_snow_call_kiosk_logs_weekly $country$ | stats count by location</query>
    <earliest>0</earliest>
    <latest></latest>
  </search>
  <fieldForLabel>location</fieldForLabel>
  <fieldForValue>location</fieldForValue>
  <prefix>(</prefix>
  <suffix>)</suffix>
  <valuePrefix>location="</valuePrefix>
  <valueSuffix>"</valueSuffix>
  <delimiter> OR </delimiter>
  <choice value="*">All</choice>
</input>

So the region value is the one that has a region i need to split up by country and essentially in my search I want to separate my region A into two different regions so lets say they select region AA and select all for my country and location filters- then I need my search to include all of the countries from region AA - does that make sense?

Re: How to Use Static Dropdowns in Dashboard

DalJeanis — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:07:56 GMT

UPDATED TO BE EVEN SIMPLER:

The simplest way would be to create a lookup table with two columns - region and caller_id_location_country.

The countries in Region A would appear in two different regions, Region A and Region AA or AB.

Populate your dropdown 'reg' with ...

<query>| inputlookup mycountries.csv | stats count by region</query>

Populate your dropdown country with ...

 <query> | inputlookup mycountries.csv | where $reg$ | stats count by caller_id_location_country</query>

Or you could hard code them into the current queries...

 <query>index=it_snow_call_kiosk_logs_weekly  
| stats count by region 
| append [| makeresults 
          | eval region=mvappend ("AA","AB") 
          | mvexpand region 
          | table region
          ] 
| sort 0 region 
 </query>

 <query>index=it_snow_call_kiosk_logs_weekly $reg$ 
| stats count as mycount by caller_id_location_country
| append [|makeresults 
          | eval regiondata=mvappend("AA,country AA1","AA,CountryAA2","AB,Country AB1", "AB,Country AB2") 
          | makemv regiondata 
          | mvexpand regiondata 
          | rex field=regiondata "(?<region>[^,]+),(?<caller_id_location_country>.*)" 
          | search $reg$ 
          | table caller_id_location_country
          ]
| stats count by caller_id_location_country
</query>

Re: How to Use Static Dropdowns in Dashboard

somesoni2 — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:53:20 GMT

Change location query to this.

index=it_snow_call_kiosk_logs_weekly $reg$  $country$ | stats count by location

Since there are overlapping in countries, we need to use both prior filters.