topic Re: dropdown token display name and value in Splunk Search

Is it possible to get dropdown token display name and value?

biju_babu — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:25:08 GMT

I have a dropdown in my dashboard studio which has some static values like

TokenName: appName

Display Name	Value
App1	Value1
App2	Value2

In my search query, i need to use both display name and value. We can get the value using $appName$ but is it possible to also get display name?

Hoping for a help. Thanks

Re: dropdown token display name and value

gcusello — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:51:38 GMT

Hi @biju_babu,

It isn't so immediate:

you should separate the label from the value, in other words, you should run in the dropdown a search like the following:

your_search | eval both_fields=Display_Name."|".Value | table Display_Name Value

Than you should associate to the label the "Display_Name" field and to the value the "Value" field.

Then in the search you have to separate the two components of "both_fields" using a regex like this:

| rex field=both_fields "^(?<Display_Name>[^\|]*)\|(?<Value>.*)"

in this way you have in your search both Display_Value and Value.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: dropdown token display name and value

biju_babu — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:14:39 GMT

Actually, i want to set source as display_Name and use value in search

for example -

index=main sourcetype="access_combined" source="App1" | search "Value1*"

is there any simple way to achieve this?

Re: dropdown token display name and value

gcusello — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:13:34 GMT

Ciao.

Giuseppe

The only way is the one described in my previous answer.

There could be another solution using two tokens with the second related to the first, something like this:

<form> <fieldset submitButton="false"> <input type="dropdown" token="source"> <label>source choose</label> <search> <query> index=your_index | dedup source | sort source | table source </query> <earliest>-24h@h</earliest> <latest>now</latest> </search> <fieldForLabel>source</fieldForLabel> <fieldForValue>source</fieldForValue> </input> <input type="dropdown" token="Value"> <label>Value choose</label> <search> <query> index=your_index source="$source$" | dedup value | sort value | table value </query> <earliest>-24h@h</earliest> <latest>now</latest> </search> <fieldForLabel>value</fieldForLabel> <fieldForValue>value</fieldForValue> </input> </fieldset> <row> <panel> <title>Title</title> <table> <search> <query> index=main sourcetype="access_combined" source="$source$" "$value$" </query> <earliest>$Time.earliest$</earliest> <latest>$Time.latest$</latest> </search> <option name="drilldown">none</option> <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option> </table> </panel> </row> </form>

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: dropdown token display name and value

biju_babu — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:59:14 GMT

Thanks Giuseppe.

by the way i was using dashboard studio not the classic xml. I was thinking another way to do this by using token value as string with both values separated by some character (;) and use split method to get the value. I will check you method too.

Thanks a lot