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dynamic query change in form creation

rakesh_498115
Motivator

Hi ,

I have created a form with a dropdown box and a textbox ..when a change a value in dropdown box my query should change.For example i have three queries like this

Query 1 : sourcetype="X" | somelogic | where cond = $search parameter $
Query 2 : sourcetype="Y" | somelogic | where cond = $search parameter $
Query 3 : sourcetype="Z" | somelogic | where cond = $search parameter $

where search parameter is the value given in the textbox.my requirement i have three values in the dropbox say A,B,C.if i select A Query1 should excute with the value given in the textbox as searchparameter..How can i do this..

Please help me on this..

thanx

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Ayn
Legend

You could probably use a subsearch to choose sourcetype like this:

* [search * | head 1 | eval sourcetype=case(cond=$paramvalue1$,"X",cond=$paramvalue2$,"Y",cond=$paramvalue3$,"Z") | fields sourcetype] | somelogic | where cond=$paramvalue$
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rakesh_498115
Motivator

actually i dnt have any code ..i have the queries ready ..and need to implement in this way..checked all the examples in the splunkbase but couldnt get any solution.

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araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Can you paste in the code that you have so far?

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