Creating drilldown to new tab for auto search without adding custom search

[aalvino]

I am trying to make it so if a user clicks on any cell in a Dashboard showing a Statistics table, that will result in a search being launched in a new tab. The "Auto" search does exactly what I want it to do, so I want to be able to use that, but have it launch in a new tab.

There is no option to enable that in the UI.
There are a number of answers in here which show to add the following to the XML.

target="_blank"

The problem is that "target" is part of the link structure. I don't have a link defined because I am using the Auto search. Is there a way to do this without adding a custom search? My search is very long and contains a number of characters (? and &) which then fail in the XML code, so I am manually making many updates to the XML for any change that I make to the search. It is quite tedious.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Tony

[rrovers]

• select "edit"
• select "more actions" in the panel of the drilldown
• choose "edit drilldown"
• tab custom
• check "open in new tab"

[gregbo]

When i do that, the search on the new tab doesn't include the values that were clicked on, like in Auto.

[renjith_nair]

@aalvino ,

If the concern is only changing the search, one of the possibilities you could try is to set the search token and use that in the drilldown.

Add these to your actual search's done event

         <done>
            <set token="srch">$job.search$</set>
            <set token="earliest_time">$job.earliestTime$</set>
            <set token="latest_time">$job.latestTime$</set>
            <set token="sid">$job.sid$</set>
          </done>

Use the below in your drilldown

       <drilldown>
          <link target="_blank">search?q=$srch$&amp;earliest=$earliest_time$&amp;latest=$latest_time$&amp;sid=$job.sid$&amp;display.page.search.mode=smart&amp;dispatch.sample_ratio=1%0A&amp;workload_pool=&amp;display.page.search.tab=statistics&amp;display.general.type=statistics</link>
        </drilldown>

In this case, even though you change your search or time range, it will reflect in the token and hence in the target link