How to get a token to only display on a label if set via a drilldown on a form?

[bcronrath]

I have a dashboard which includes a grid, that when a row is clicked, displays info in graphs below that based on what you clicked. What I want to do is label those graphs below with the token value that is being passed in so that they have a label for what they are looking at. Let's say the token is $Name_tok$. I set the label to have $Name_tok$ in the name, and while it does work fine for when I click the drilldown options, initially it just displays literally as $Name_tok$ which is not what I'd like to see, I'd rather just have no text in that space. I've tried doing the following at the top of the page but it doesn't appear to work:

    <init>
      <set token="Name_tok"> </set>
    </init>

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?
I'm on Splunk 6

[gokadroid · Accepted solution]

Try to set the token in drilldown since you want token to be passed on clicking a value. What you should be looking at is something as follows:

< row>
< panel>
< table>
< title> This is the chart on which you will click a row < /title>
< search>
< query>yourQuery that populates this panel table< /query>
< earliest>earliestTIme< /earliest>
< latest>latestTime< /latest>
< /search>

< drilldown>
< set token="Name_tok">$click.value$< /set>
< /drilldown>
:
:other table options
< /table>
< /panel>
< panel>
** < chart depends="$Name_tok$">
< title>Title of the chart where the click is reflected in $Name_tok$< /title>
< search>
< query>your serach query making use of $Name_tok$ as that is what was clicked.< /query> **
< earliest>earliestTime< /earliest>
< latest>latestTime< /latest>
< /search>
:
:other chart options
< /chart>
< /panel>
< /row>

< drilldown> , < set token> and $click.value$ ensure that token is set on clicking a value

< chart depends="$Name_tok$"> ensures chart is only shown up once the token is set. Use the token then in title, search or wherever you want once it is set.

Note: Please remove the leading space in each of the tags, like < drillown>, as I do not know how to put tags without spaces in the answer 🙂

[rjthibod]

@gokadroid you can avoid the spaces around the tags by putting your xml segment in a code block.

When you are typing out an answer you should see a button on the formatting options toolbar that looks like two rows of binary numbers. Click that button and another window will appear where you can type/paste your code block in XML without needing to add the spaces.

[bcronrath]

Ah ok, did not know about the "depends" attribute - perfect this works, thank you!

[gokadroid]

OH WOW!!! You have enlightened me for real...thanks a lot!!

[sundareshr]

Since the chart is also dependent on the token value being set, why not hide the entire panel. You can do that by adding depends="$Name_tok$" to the panel tag like this

<panel depends="$Name_tok$"><chart>.....</chart></panel>