topic Re: How to create a cascade dropdown? in Dashboards & Visualizations

How to create a cascade dropdown?

gcescatto — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:02:32 GMT

Hey all,

I'm kind of new in Splunk and I would like some help on building a dashboard with a cascade dropdown. I have a script running fro different application and the idea is: once you select one of the applications (on a dropdown), it populates another dropdown with the corresponding servers (see image below).

On my Json I have a field that contains Application Name, another contains Script name and the other Server Name.
Even though I created a token ($myApp$) on my query ( | search ScriptName AppName="$myApp$"), when configuring the dropdown it didn't recognized it.

Could some one please help?
Thanks in advance.

Re: How to create a cascade dropdown?

Sukisen1981 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:55:13 GMT

Are you sure you have checked the search on field change option in your App token drop downs?

Re: How to create a cascade dropdown?

niketn — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:46:05 GMT

@gcescatto would it be possible for you to provide some sample JSON for App/Script/Server data? You can mock/anonymize any sensitive information? Also if possible can you share the code for App and Server dropdown?

If not mocked data/code can not be shared, would it be fine if we create a mock run anywhere dashboard on similar lines to assist you?

Re: How to create a cascade dropdown?

adonio — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:32:17 GMT

hello there,

please take a look at my previous answer, here:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/527016/how-to-create-a-dependent-dropdown-and-multivalue.html
although this one using an example of csv file, the logic is the same

hope it helps