https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323266#M96484 <P>I don't know if this is specific enough,</P> <P>I have meta.hardware that has a list of devices. I would like to list those devices labeled in meta.hardware on the x axis without the need for hard coding those specific devices. </P> Tue, 30 May 2017 23:47:45 GMT kinda 2017-05-30T23:47:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323262#M96480 <P>Hello, </P> <P>I don't specifically have anything down yet, I was just wondering if it would be possible to set a variable as the top row (x axis), the x axis would be auto populated by a variable. </P> <P>Thanks in advance!</P> Tue, 30 May 2017 16:36:42 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323262#M96480 kinda 2017-05-30T16:36:42Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323263#M96481 <P>If in a dashboard, you create a control where the users selects from a list and this selection sets a token that the searches inside of the panels can reference. Is this what you mean?</P> Tue, 30 May 2017 16:53:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323263#M96481 woodcock 2017-05-30T16:53:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323264#M96482 <P>A little, </P> <P>I'm trying to get the x axis populated automatically with preset metadata that's available in my dashboard. </P> Tue, 30 May 2017 17:06:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323264#M96482 kinda 2017-05-30T17:06:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323265#M96483 <P>Start with this app:<BR /> <A href="https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1603/">https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1603/</A></P> <P>I can help more if you can be much more specific.</P> Tue, 30 May 2017 17:09:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323265#M96483 woodcock 2017-05-30T17:09:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323266#M96484 <P>I don't know if this is specific enough,</P> <P>I have meta.hardware that has a list of devices. I would like to list those devices labeled in meta.hardware on the x axis without the need for hard coding those specific devices. </P> Tue, 30 May 2017 23:47:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323266#M96484 kinda 2017-05-30T23:47:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323267#M96485 <P>I don't know if this is important, but meta.hardware is listed as an 'interesting field', I don't know if I could somehow use that to my advantage </P> Tue, 30 May 2017 23:50:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323267#M96485 kinda 2017-05-30T23:50:51Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323268#M96486 <P>Yes, this is possible and very easy. You just use the <CODE>chart</CODE> (or <CODE>timechart</CODE> ) command instead of the <CODE>stats</CODE> command; see here:</P> <P><A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/32001/difference-between-stats-and-chart.html">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/32001/difference-between-stats-and-chart.html</A></P> Wed, 31 May 2017 01:10:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323268#M96486 woodcock 2017-05-31T01:10:18Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323269#M96487 <P>Thats awesome! Thank you. I've never heard of/used the chart command. Thank you for your help!</P> Wed, 31 May 2017 16:02:42 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323269#M96487 kinda 2017-05-31T16:02:42Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323270#M96488 <P>See also <CODE>xyseries</CODE> (and it's opposite, <CODE>untable</CODE> ).</P> Wed, 31 May 2017 16:56:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Is-it-possible-to-set-a-variable-as-the-x-axis-in-a-table/m-p/323270#M96488 woodcock 2017-05-31T16:56:53Z