Dynamic dropdown dashboard with selectFirstChoice-->true doesn't work when you refresh it or share the link

[moizmmz]

Hello,

I have a dashboard with 4 input dropdowns where three of the dropdowns dynamically populate based on the input value from the first dropdown. Next, there are panels in the dashboard which use the values from these dropdowns to show statistics (they use: true). Search on change and autorun dashboard are both ON.

The problem i'm seeing is that, when i refresh the dashboard or share it's link, the dashboard stops functioning. Splunk version: 6.6.2

Pls help!

Here's my code:

<form>
  <label>Dropdown Example</label>
  <fieldset submitButton="false" autoRun="true">
    <input type="dropdown" token="service_family_tok" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>First Drop Down</label>
      <choice value="Match 1">Match 1</choice>
      <choice value="Match 2">Match 2</choice>
      <change>
        <condition value="Match 1">
          <set token="feature_values">Match_1_00,Match_1_360,Match_1_tactical_cam,Match_1_UHD</set>
          <unset token="form.enter_feature_tok"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition value="Match 2">
          <set token="feature_values">Match_2_00,Match_2_360,Match_2_tactical_cam,Match_2_UHD</set>
          <unset token="form.enter_feature_tok"></unset>
        </condition>
      </change>
    </input>
    <input type="dropdown" token="enter_feature_tok" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>Second Dropdown</label>
      <change>
        <condition value="Match_1_00">
          <set token="feature_start_time">1559761200</set>
          <unset token="form.timmy"></unset>
          <set token="feature_end_time">1559768400</set>
          <unset token="form.mommy"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition value="Match_1_360">
          <set token="feature_start_time">1559754000</set>
          <unset token="form.timmy"></unset>
          <set token="feature_end_time">1559772000</set>
          <unset token="form.mommy"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition value="Match_1_tactical_cam">
          <set token="feature_start_time">1559756400</set>
          <unset token="form.timmy"></unset>
          <set token="feature_end_time">1559769300</set>
          <unset token="form.mommy"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition value="Match_1_UHD">
          <set token="feature_start_time">1559761200</set>
          <unset token="form.timmy"></unset>
          <set token="feature_end_time">1559768400</set>
          <unset token="form.mommy"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition value="Match_2_00">
          <set token="feature_start_time">1559934000</set>
          <unset token="form.timmy"></unset>
          <set token="feature_end_time">1559941200</set>
          <unset token="form.mommy"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition value="Match_2_360">
          <set token="feature_start_time">1559926800</set>
          <unset token="form.timmy"></unset>
          <set token="feature_end_time">1559944800</set>
          <unset token="form.mommy"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition value="Match_2_tactical_cam">
          <set token="feature_start_time">1559929200</set>
          <unset token="form.timmy"></unset>
          <set token="feature_end_time">1559942100</set>
          <unset token="form.mommy"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition value="Match_2_UHD">
          <set token="feature_start_time">1559934000</set>
          <unset token="form.timmy"></unset>
          <set token="feature_end_time">1559941200</set>
          <unset token="form.mommy"></unset>
        </condition>
      </change>
      <fieldForLabel>feature</fieldForLabel>
      <fieldForValue>feature</fieldForValue>
      <search>
        <query>|makeresults|eval feature="$feature_values$"|makemv feature delim=","|mvexpand feature</query>
        <earliest>-1s@s</earliest>
        <latest>now</latest>
      </search>
    </input>
    <input type="dropdown" token="timmy" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>Start time Selection</label>
      <fieldForLabel>start_time</fieldForLabel>
      <fieldForValue>start_time</fieldForValue>
      <selectFirstChoice>true</selectFirstChoice>
      <search>
        <query>|makeresults| eval start_time="$feature_start_time$"|makemv start_time delim=","| mvexpand start_time</query>
      </search>
    </input>
    <input type="dropdown" token="mommy" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>End time Selection</label>
      <fieldForLabel>end_time</fieldForLabel>
      <fieldForValue>end_time</fieldForValue>
      <selectFirstChoice>true</selectFirstChoice>
      <search>
        <query>|makeresults| eval end_time="$feature_end_time$"|makemv end_time delim=","| mvexpand end_time</query>
      </search>
    </input>
  </fieldset>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <html>
       <h3>Service Family Token : $service_family_tok$ , Feature Token : $enter_feature_tok$, Start Time Token: $timmy$, End Time Token: $mommy$</h3>
     </html>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <single>
        <search>
          <query>index=dcg_github| stats count</query>
          <earliest>$timmy$</earliest>
          <latest>$mommy$</latest>
        </search>
        <option name="drilldown">none</option>
      </single>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

[niketn]

@moismmz as per your code the token feature_start_time seems to have only one value as epoch time. Under what situation you will have comma separated values? Only if there are multiple values then selectFirstChoice seems useful.

[moizmmz]

it's value changes as per the base query. And without selectFirstChoice, it doesn't select any value