How to use url form parameters in section of dashboard to create tokens for panel depends?

[bowesmana]

I have a dashboard that has a 2 box checkbox and depending on the options set in that checkbox, I show or hide an input panel for the selected option.

So, my checkbox is managed like this

    <input type="checkbox" token="show_filters">
      <label></label>
      <choice value="a">Show Enrichment filters</choice>
      <choice value="b">Show Splunk filters</choice>
      <delimiter> </delimiter>
      <change>
        <condition match="$show_filters$ = &quot;a&quot;">
          <set token="enrich">1</set>
          <unset token="splunk"></unset>
        </condition>
        <condition match="$show_filters$ = &quot;a b&quot;">
          <set token="enrich">1</set>
          <set token="splunk">1</set>
        </condition>
        <condition match="$show_filters$ = &quot;b&quot;">
          <unset token="enrich"></unset>
          <set token="splunk">1</set>
        </condition>
        <condition match="isnull($show_filters$)">
          <unset token="enrich"></unset>
          <unset token="splunk"></unset>
        </condition>
      </change>
    </input>

then I have two input panels protected like

    <panel depends="$enrich$">
      <input...>
      </input>
    </panel>
    <panel depends="$splunk$">
      <input...>
      </input>
    </panel>

and that all works fine in the dashboard. However, when I try to pass in the relevant options from a URL I can get the checkbox parameters set correctly by passing in form.show_filters=a, but form.enrich=1 does not cause the dependent enrich panel to be shown and if I add the $enrich$ token to a panel title, it is not set.

So, I tried to make an section of the dashboard to do this with each of the 3 pairs below in turn, but none seem to work.

  <init>
    <eval token="enrich">if(match($form.show_filters$,"a"),1,)</eval>
    <eval token="splunk">if(match($form.show_filters$,"b"),1,)</eval>

    <eval token="enrich">if(match($show_filters$,"a"),1,)</eval>
    <eval token="splunk">if(match($show_filters$,"b"),1,)</eval>

    <eval token="enrich">$form.enrich$</eval>
    <eval token="splunk">$form.splunk$</eval>
  </init>

I also tried adding a base search with a finalized section to do conditional matching and token setting to no avail.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

[TheEggi98]

I have a similar Problem.

I call a Dashboard with <URL To Dashboard>?form.dropdown1=val1&form.dropdown2=val2&form.show_panel_tok=panel1

In the called Dashboard i have

...
<init>
  <eval>token="show_panel1_tok">if($form.show_panel_tok$=="panel1",true(),null())</eval>
  <eval>token="show_panel2_tok">if($form.show_panel_tok$=="panel2",true(),null())</eval>
</init>
...
<panel depends="$show_panel1_tok$">
...
<panel depends="$show_panel2_tok$">
...

 
the dropdown inputs dropdown1 and dropdown2 are showing the given value, but the evaluated tokens from init do sometimes work but mostly dont.
Could it be a timing problem of splunk? If yes does anyone know a workaround?

[tomawest]

I think this is similar to issues I have experienced in the past. Try adding a default value for your show_filters input. Your trigger points are based on a change in value, however you arent actually changing the value when you load the dashboard with a prefilled value as the dashboard will treat that as the initial value (and as such, you arent changing it).

[bowesmana]

I've tried so many variants of that, but it just seems that the tokens are not evaluated correctly. I've tried about a million variants now 😞