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SavedSearch Post Process drilldown help ??

rakesh_498115
Motivator

Hi, I am using a saved search to display a pie chart , on clickin that i am using a postproces module to show the stats ..but its not working ?? i knew if we use the search module directly we can use the postprocess module..but this is a savedsearch module i have hiddenpostprocess module..its working for the first drilldown . but not working on the second level postprocess drilldown..Please help..

My code..






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<span class="server_header"><center><font size="6" face="Times New Roman" color="blue">Stats Dashboard </font></center></span>
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srch_HistoricalSearch

| search gateway="A" | top Channel
Publisher Layer-Traffic Breakdown(For Past 1hr,Updated every 15 minutes)


true
pie

click1
80%
300px
False

| search Channel="$click1.value$" | stats count by Channel,SiteId,Location

events

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Thanx

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sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You're using Splunk's HiddenPostProcess module, and not Sideview's PostProcess module.

Splunk's HiddenPostProcess module can not do any kind of $foo$ substitution, so that $click.value$ token you have is just not being substituted.

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