Replace input with a variable

[darrel989787987]

Hello,

I have a dashboard created in studio (I believe), the definition is in json and I am editing it through splunk.

I need to remove a checkbox drop down (input.multiselect) and replace it with a variable containing the same values that are currently included in the multi-select.  For example, if the multi select contains bob,charlie, and marie, I need to use a variable that contains "bob,charlie,marie".

My thought is to replace the input with a variable with the same name as the token for the input so I do not have to change all the searches below, but I cannot find out how to just create a hard coded variable in the dashboard definition, is this possible? I found some examples but they are xml and im assuming an older dashboard type not created with studio.

basically, the input looks like

        "input_JjuLlsqO": {
            "options": {
                "items": [
                    {
                        "label": "bob",
                        "value": "bob"
                    },
                    {
                        "label": "juan",
                        "value": "juan"
                    }
                ],
                "token": "name"
            },
            "title": "SelectName",
            "type": "input.multiselect"
        },

Later on in my dashboard I use $name$ to reference the user selected values, I would like to just remove the input and instead defined a variable called "name" that I can reference like "$name$".

[richgalloway]

In Simple XML we would use an <init> stanza to set a static token value.  The equivalent in DS is a default stanza.  See https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/INIT-equivalent-in-Dashboard-Studio/m-p/63...

[livehybrid]

Hi @darrel989787987 

I think the easiest way to achieve this might be to have the input as a text input with your required token name and then set it to display in canvas, once its in canvas you can drag it out the side of the canvas so its not visible when viewing your dashboard:

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