Drilldown chart needs a different query

[wwhitener]

Greetings,

I am doing the Advanced XML and I have a bar chart showing the results of a summary query--the count of values over a time period. I want to click on a bar and have a second graph appear showing how the value compares to the results over time--the minimum value so far, the maximum value so far, the average, etc. When I try to put in the second graph, I can hardcode in the values and it works fine. When I try to use the click.name ($click.name$) or ($click.value$), the query fails.

Has anyone else seen this?

[wwhitener · Accepted solution]

More information....

I actually got it to work without Sideview Utils and using multiple variables.

• I had a split-by clause in my highest level search. So, I ended up using a mix of click.name, click.value, click.name2 & click.value2.
• In order to capture every variable, I had to nest the ConvertToIntention modules. There's a mightily abbreviated version (in case I forget 😛 ) below.
• I read somewhere that the drilldown freaks a bit when using the stats command in the parent chart, so I ended up changing my query away from that. However, streamstats seems to work just fine, so I don't know.

Now if I could just figure out how to get the chart to hide the child chart and results--to reverse the drilldown......

Cheers!

<!-- Panel 2 has the overall counts -->
<module name="HiddenSearch" layoutPanel="panel_row2_col1"  autoRun="True">
    <param name="search">source=mysource.log | chart count(field1) over field2 by field1</param>
    <param name="earliest">-1d</param>
    <module name="TimeRangePicker">
      <param name="default">Today</param>
      <param name="searchWhenChanged">True</param>

    <module name="HiddenChartFormatter">
        <param name="charting.primaryAxisTitle.text">(Field2) Counts</param>
        <param name="charting.secondaryAxisTitle.text">Count of Events</param>
        <param name="charting.legend.placement">none</param>
        <param name="charting.chart">column</param>
        <param name="charting.seriesColors">[0xf055FF, 0xfC0000, 0x0FFF66]</param>
        <param name="charting.chart.style">shiny</param>
        <param name="charting.legend.masterLegend" />
        <param name="charting.legend">legend</param>
        <param name="charting.legend.placement">left</param>
        <param name="charting.legend.labelStyle.maximumWidth">500</param>
        <param name="charting.legend.labelStyle.defaultTextFormat">{italic:true,size:14}</param>
        <module name="JobProgressIndicator" />

        <!-- This is the totals chart to click on -->
        <module name="FlashChart">
            <param name="width">75%</param>
            <param name="height">250px</param>

            <!-- Begin the drill down custom coding -->

             <!-- Start Simple results header -->
             <!-- For any query, use this to determine your variables and values -->
             <!-- Note, click.value, click.value2, click.name, click.name2 -->
             <module name="SimpleResultsHeader">
                 <param name="entityName">events</param>
                 <!-- Note:  Additional $time$, $count$ here -->
                 <param name="headerFormat">Found $count$ event(s) for field2=$click.value$ and field1=$click.name2$ $time$</param>
             </module>
             <!-- End Simple Results header -->


             <!-- This is an inner chart and search to show statistics on the barchart click -->
             <module name="HiddenSearch">
                <param name="search">source=mysource.log field2=$value2$ field1=$value1$ | timechart count(field2) as MyCount | streamstats avg(MyCount) as AvgCount, min(MyCount) as MinCount, max(MyCount) as MaxCount </param>

                <module name="ConvertToIntention">    
                    <param name="intention">
                        <param name="name">stringreplace</param>

                        <param name="arg">
                            <param name="value2">
                                <param name="value">$click.value$</param>
                            </param>
                        </param>

                        <!-- tells the addterm intention to put our term in the first search clause no matter what. -->
                        <param name="flags">
                          <list>indexed</list>
                        </param>
                    </param>
                    <!-- This inner ConvertToIntention takes care of the second $event$ variable -->     
                    <module name="ConvertToIntention">    
                        <param name="intention">
                            <param name="name">stringreplace</param>
                            <param name="arg">
                                <param name="value1">
                                    <param name="value">$click.name2$</param>
                                </param>
                            </param>
                        <!-- tells the addterm intention to put our term in the first search clause no matter what. -->
                        <param name="flags">
                          <list>indexed</list>
                        </param>
                      </param>

                      <module name="JobProgressIndicator"/>

                      <!-- The inner chart to display -->      
                      <module name="HiddenChartFormatter">
                            <param name="charting.primaryAxisTitle.text">Drilldown Counts</param>
                            <param name="charting.secondaryAxisTitle.text">Count of Events</param>
                            <param name="charting.legend.placement">left</param>
                            <param name="charting.seriesColors">[0x0099FF, 0xCC66FF, 0xFF3333, 0x3333FF]</param>
                            <param name="charting.chart.style">shiny</param>
                            <param name="charting.chart">line</param>
                            <module name="FlashChart">
                                <param name="width">100%</param>
                                <param name="height">150px</param>
                            </module>       
                        </module>
                        <!-- End of inner HiddenChartFormatter -->

                        <!-- Now to add Results -->
                        <module name="Paginator">
                            <param name="entityName">events</param>
                            <param name="maxPages">10</param>
                            <module name="EventsViewer">
                                <param name="segmentation">full</param>
                                <param name="reportFieldLink">report_builder_format_report</param>
                            </module>
                        </module>
                        <!-- End the Results -->

                    </module>
                    <!-- end of second ConvertToIntention -->
                  </module>                       
                  <!-- End of outer ConvertToIntention -->                  
                <!--  End the drilldown custom coding -->
                </module>
                <!-- End Interior HiddenSearch -->
            </module>
            <!-- End of interior FlashChart -->
        </module>
        <!-- End Chart Formatter -->
    </module>
    <!-- End TimeRangePicker -->
</module>
<!-- End Panel 2 -->

[RicoSuave]

Can you please post your advanced xml? And are you using Sideview Utils?