Side View Pull Down with Check boxes and Search

[etchouako]

How to implement the pulldown module in side view utils (or otherwise) that would enable fields from the list to be searched when the list is very long just as the dropdown does in Splunk?

[sideview · Accepted solution]

You might take a look at the "advanced" mode in the Pulldown module. Although the CheckboxPulldown module is almost always a better option, the older "advanced" mode does technically give you the functionality you're asking about - in that the user can type and the module will narrow down the matching selections as they type. (Note that the module still pulls the entire list of options down to the client - there is no cleverness like postprocess searches going on here - just local filtering)

To get some examples of Pulldown module in the "advanced" mode, manually go to /en-US/app/sideview_utils/testcases_for_pulldown_with_chosen in your browser

and open the source of that XML view in a text editor. Although there are no official docs for this mode (like I said CheckboxPulldown is generally a much better choice), the testcases will give you an idea of the breadth of functionality.