Drilldowns and Internet Explorer 8

[yong_ly]

There seems to be some kind of issue with dynamic drilldowns with Splunk and Internet Explorer.

I've been building dashboards and UIs with drilldown and it all worked fine until I tried to get other people to use it. I noticed that while drilldowns worked in Firefox, it didn't work properly in Internet explorer.

For example, when I try to pass a value from a drilldown to another form such as :

<table>
<title>Table panel with dynamic drilldown that passes the clicked row's 'count' column value to populate a form</title>
<searchString>index=_internal | head 1000 | stats count by user</searchString>
<option name="count">10</option>
<drilldown>
<link>/app/simple_xml_examples/simple_form_text?form.limit=$row.count$</link>
</drilldown>
</table>

The $row.count$ variable doesn't get passed to the form properly when using IE. I think it has something to do with the way it handles links and addresses? Not sure..

I'm on Splunk 6, and the problem is with IE8.. I haven't tested it on any other versions of IE since I don't have admin rights to upgrade or install.

Has anyone else seen this problem or know how to address it? (other than switching browsers)

Cheers,

[phoenixdigital]

I am seeing the same issue with IE 9

None of the links for drilldowns work and they are configured in the same basic format.

      <table>
    <title>Top detected logtypes from generic</title>
    <searchString>sourcetype=generic | stats count by logtype | sort -count | table logtype, count</searchString>
    <earliestTime>$time_picker.earliest$</earliestTime>
    <latestTime>$time_picker.latest$</latestTime>
    <option name="wrap">true</option>
    <option name="rowNumbers">false</option>
    <option name="dataOverlayMode">none</option>
    <option name="count">20</option>
    <option name="table.drilldown">all</option>
    <drilldown target="Generic Detailed View">
      <link>
        /app/my_app/generic_detailed_view?form.logtype=$row.logtype$
      </link>
    </drilldown>
  </table>

Works fine in Chrome however the client has specifically requested Splunk must work with IE.

[meenal901]

Facing same issue. It works fine in Chrome or Firefox but when in IE, drilldown doesn't work at all. Nothing happens on click.
Difficult to make client understand this problem.

[dmitrii4splunk]

This should be fixed in Splunk 6.0.1.