Hi
I've implemented a Splunk 6 javascript extension for a SimpleXML panel to show custom drilldown links for charts, tables, etc. The javascript dynamically inserts the link into the HTML DOM on page loading.
The extension basically works (when the page loads), but if I use dropdown tokens, my drilldown link disappears.
Here is the javascript code
define(function(require, exports, module) {
var _ = require('underscore');
var mvc = require('splunkjs/mvc');
var BaseSplunkView = require("splunkjs/mvc/basesplunkview");
require("css!./linksearch.css");
var LinkSearch = BaseSplunkView.extend({
options: {
managerid: null,
searchstring: null
},
initialize: function(options) {
this.configure();
this.$div = $('<div></div>');
this.settings.on("change:searchstring", this.render, this);
},
render: function() {
this.$div.appendTo(this.$el);
var uri = "https://splunksh/en-US/app/example-app/";
var searchstring = this.settings.get('searchstring');
var query = "search?q=search%20"+encodeURIComponent(searchstring);
var link = uri+query;
var a = $('<a>').attr("href", link).text("Link to Details");
a.appendTo(this.$div);
return this;
},
});
return LinkSearch;
});
and here is the Simple XML snippet
[...]
<html id="panel1">
<h2>my panel</h2>
<div id="htmlcontent"
class="splunk-view"
data-require="app/example-app/components/htmlcontent/linksearch"
data-options='{
"managerid": "link-manager",
"app_name": "example-app",
"searchstring": "index=test source=$source$ host=$host$"
}'/>
</html>
[...]
On a token-update, the DOM changes, but my render function does not get called.. why?
kind regards
Mathias
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