Dashboards & Visualizations

How to populate dropdown from lookup table?

splunkuser320
Path Finder

Hi, I need to populate the dropdown from the lookup table. I can only drop down labels from the lookup table, not the value. I need to use filter the dashboard based on the selected value. Currently, label is passing to the queries in the dashboard. 

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Manasa_401
Communicator

Hello @splunkuser320 

You have to give the lookup and table the required field you want to use as a dropdown.
In below example code, sample is the name of lookup and abc is the output field I wanted to display. So, you will get the values from abc field in the dropdown list for selection

<input type="multiselect" token="tok_name" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>Dropdown</label>
      <fieldForLabel>abc</fieldForLabel>
      <fieldForValue>abc</fieldForValue>
      <search>
        <query>|inputlookup sample
|table abc</query>
        <earliest>0</earliest>
        <latest></latest>
      </search>
    </input>

 

If this helps you, an upvote would be appreciated.

 

 

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Manasa_401
Communicator

To use this dropdown selected value in dashboard query, pass the token- $tok_name$ to the SPL.

example:
|where abc="$tok_name$"

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi
If you want dropdown you should switch type="dropdown" instead of multiselect. Also I propose to use $tok_name|s$ instead of $tok_name$ to avoid issues if values have e.g. spaces. Without |s it could cause some issues with correct values. Another option for you could be to use "$tok_name$".
r. Ismo

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