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cindygibbs_08 · ‎06-01-2021

Hello everyone I hope you guys are doing very well,

I am trying to create my very first dashboard and I have to run a code like this one:

index=rent_hotel AND "VOUCHER-56IX75"
| stats values(CLIENT) as ID by tx_uner_rep

this code will generate a table but... I want to create a dashboard that will allow me to perform this search by having a text input field where I can enter a string that will change the "VOUCHER-" portion for whatever string I submit lets say if I put "893YX" I want the code to run:

index=rent_hotel AND "VOUCHER-893YX"
| stats values(CLIENT) as ID by tx_uner_rep

and I want my dashboard the generate results only after I click on the submit button... I have tried all day without any luck by the way I using the normal/clasic version of dashboard.. I will really be so thankful if you guys can reference some links on how to achieve this thank you very much

Kindly,

Cindy

bowesmana · ‎06-01-2021

Here's an example dashboard

<form>
  <label>vouchers</label>
  <fieldset submitButton="true" autoRun="false">
    <input type="text" token="voucher_id">
      <label>VoucherId</label>
    </input>
  </fieldset>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <table>
        <search>
          <query>
index=rent_hotel AND "VOUCHER-$voucher_id$"
| stats values(CLIENT) as ID by tx_uner_rep            
          </query>
          <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
        <option name="count">100</option>
        <option name="dataOverlayMode">none</option>
        <option name="drilldown">row</option>
        <option name="percentagesRow">false</option>
        <option name="rowNumbers">false</option>
        <option name="totalsRow">false</option>
        <option name="wrap">true</option>
      </table>
    </panel>
    <panel>
      <html>
        <h1>Query being run</h1>
index=rent_hotel AND "VOUCHER-$voucher_id$"<br/>
| stats values(CLIENT) as ID by tx_uner_rep            
      </html>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

and token usage docs are here

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.0/Viz/tokens

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kamlesh_vaghela · ‎06-01-2021

@cindygibbs_08

Can you please try this?

<form>
  <label>Example</label>
  <fieldset submitButton="false" autoRun="false">
    <input type="text" token="tkn_input">
      <label>input</label>
    </input>
  </fieldset>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <table>
        <search>
          <query>index=rent_hotel AND "VOUCHER-$tkn_input$"
| stats values(CLIENT) as ID by tx_uner_rep</query>
          <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
        <option name="count">20</option>
        <option name="dataOverlayMode">none</option>
        <option name="drilldown">cell</option>
        <option name="percentagesRow">false</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
        <option name="rowNumbers">false</option>
        <option name="totalsRow">false</option>
        <option name="wrap">true</option>
      </table>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

Please refer below links to get more on it.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.0/Viz/BuildandeditdashboardswithSimplifiedXML

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/8.2.2104/Viz/CreateDashboards

https://www.splunk.com/pdfs/solution-guides/splunk-dashboards-quick-reference-guide.pdf

Thanks
KV
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bowesmana · ‎06-01-2021

Here's an example dashboard

<form>
  <label>vouchers</label>
  <fieldset submitButton="true" autoRun="false">
    <input type="text" token="voucher_id">
      <label>VoucherId</label>
    </input>
  </fieldset>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <table>
        <search>
          <query>
index=rent_hotel AND "VOUCHER-$voucher_id$"
| stats values(CLIENT) as ID by tx_uner_rep            
          </query>
          <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
        <option name="count">100</option>
        <option name="dataOverlayMode">none</option>
        <option name="drilldown">row</option>
        <option name="percentagesRow">false</option>
        <option name="rowNumbers">false</option>
        <option name="totalsRow">false</option>
        <option name="wrap">true</option>
      </table>
    </panel>
    <panel>
      <html>
        <h1>Query being run</h1>
index=rent_hotel AND "VOUCHER-$voucher_id$"<br/>
| stats values(CLIENT) as ID by tx_uner_rep            
      </html>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

and token usage docs are here

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.0/Viz/tokens

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