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Update query when multiselect changed/updated

vschrodda
Explorer

How can I get the my queries to update when I change the contents of the multiselect input (Select Users)?  Right now, the data will only update the data with the updated $user_tok$ when changing the selection in the Log type dropdown:

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<form>
  <label>Data Lookup</label>
  <description>Display stats for a given user</description>
  <search id="baseSearch">
    <query>index=source_db sourcetype=source_type Username="*$site_tok$*" | table _time,_raw,Username,roundtrip_ms,client_to_agent_packetloss</query>
    <earliest>$time_tok.earliest$</earliest>
    <latest>$time_tok.latest$</latest>
  </search>
  <fieldset submitButton="false" autoRun="true">
    <input type="text" token="site_tok" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>Enter Site</label>
      <default></default>
    </input>
    <input type="time" token="time_tok" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>Date</label>
      <default>
        <earliest>-7d@h</earliest>
        <latest>now</latest>
      </default>
    </input>
    <input type="multiselect" token="user_tok" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>Select Users</label>
      <search base="baseSearch" id="user_search">
        <query>| eval Username=mvindex(split(Username,"\\"),-1) | dedup Username | sort Username</query>
      </search>
      <fieldForLabel>Username</fieldForLabel>
      <fieldForValue>Username</fieldForValue>
      <valuePrefix>Username="*</valuePrefix>
      <delimiter> OR </delimiter>
      <valueSuffix>"</valueSuffix>
    </input>
    <input type="dropdown" token="result_type" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>Log type</label>
      <choice value="P_LOSS">Packet Loss</choice>
      <choice value="MGMT_PROTO_DATA">Latency</choice>
      <default></default>
      <change>
        <condition label="Latency">
          <unset token="result1"></unset>
          <set token="result1">| search _raw="*$result_type$*" $user_tok$ | where roundtrip_ms!=" " | sort _time | table _time,_raw,roundtrip_ms</set>
          <unset token="result2"></unset>
          <set token="result2">| search _raw="*$result_type$*" $user_tok$ | where roundtrip_ms!=" " | sort _time | eval roundtrip_ms=roundtrip_ms | timechart span=1s values(roundtrip_ms) BY Username</set>
        </condition>
        <condition label="Packet Loss">
          <unset token="result1"></unset>
          <set token="result1">| search _raw="*$result_type$*" $user_tok$ | table _time,_raw,client_to_agent_packetloss</set>
          <unset token="result2"></unset>
          <set token="result2">| search _raw="*$result_type$*" $user_tok$ | eval packet_loss=client_to_agent_packetloss | timechart span=1s values(packet_loss) BY Username</set>
        </condition>
      </change>
    </input>
  </fieldset>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <title>Performance statistics</title>
      <chart>
        <search base="baseSearch">
          <query>$result2$</query>
        </search>
        <option name="charting.chart">line</option>
        <option name="charting.chart.nullValueMode">connect</option>
        <option name="charting.drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
      </chart>
      <table>
        <title>Query Data</title>
        <search base="baseSearch">
          <query>$result1$</query>
        </search>
      </table>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

 

 

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vschrodda
Explorer

Fixed my issue by updating the queries

    <panel>
      <title>Performance statistics</title>
      <chart>
        <search base="baseSearch">
          <query>search $user_tok$ | search $result2$</query>
        </search>
        <option name="charting.chart">line</option>
        <option name="charting.chart.nullValueMode">connect</option>
        <option name="charting.drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
      </chart>
      <table>
        <title>Query Data</title>
        <search base="baseSearch>
          <query>| search $user_tok$ | search $result1$</query>
        </search>
      </table>
    </panel>

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vschrodda
Explorer

Fixed my issue by updating the queries

    <panel>
      <title>Performance statistics</title>
      <chart>
        <search base="baseSearch">
          <query>search $user_tok$ | search $result2$</query>
        </search>
        <option name="charting.chart">line</option>
        <option name="charting.chart.nullValueMode">connect</option>
        <option name="charting.drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
      </chart>
      <table>
        <title>Query Data</title>
        <search base="baseSearch>
          <query>| search $user_tok$ | search $result1$</query>
        </search>
      </table>
    </panel>
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