Dashboards & Visualizations

Why does my dynamic drop-down input get unset if anything in the XML is changed and breaks panels that rely on the token?

cdstealer
Contributor

Hi,

I've created a dashboard with 5 inputs. The first input will be hidden eventually. It's shown to allow me to diagnose the issue.

The issue I have is that it is unstable. If anything in the XML is changed, the first input "YAxisMax" breaks and becomes unset which then breaks the panels that rely on the token to set the height of the chart.

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Here is the XML that I'm using for the inputs. I can't paste it as code or quote 😞
XML

I would be really grateful if anyone could help. I'm also using version 6.4.0.

Thanks In Advance.
Steve

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cdstealer
Contributor

I think it's working now. I moved the YAxisMax inputs to the end of the fieldset and removed a couple of the unset lines from inputs that really didn't need them. So far so good and is stable 🙂 I've attached the fieldset XML for reference. Thank you very much Neil for offering your help.

fieldset_XML

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cdstealer
Contributor

I think it's working now. I moved the YAxisMax inputs to the end of the fieldset and removed a couple of the unset lines from inputs that really didn't need them. So far so good and is stable 🙂 I've attached the fieldset XML for reference. Thank you very much Neil for offering your help.

fieldset_XML

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neilrc
Explorer

Hi There,

I'm guessing you are seeing this as all other inputs (Environment, Channel, Service, Application) have the following pragma associated to them:

  <change>
    <unset token="form.YAxisMax"></unset>
  </change>

This is unsetting the token on changes.

Thanks,

Neil

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cdstealer
Contributor

Hi Neil, That's correct. This seemed like a solution as without it, the YAxisMax dropdown would only ever display the first result from when the dashboard was opened and you'd have to manually select the new value. So the theory was to unset the token after a change so that YAxisMax would be forced to use the new value.

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neilrc
Explorer

Hi there,

Not sure, but you could try using a the "depends" attribute inputs tag as a more explicit way of forming the token dependancy you need:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.1/Viz/PanelreferenceforSimplifiedXML#input_type_.22d...

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