Is there a way to remove or hide a dynamic dashboard panel without refreshing the entire dashboard?

[jhatton]

I'm starting to experiment with dynamic panels and have one working - I click on a cell in a dashboard panel and a new panel pops up with the results based on the drilldown token/search.

My question is - is there a way to have the newly created panel go away without refreshing the entire dashboard? Adding an 'x' or 'hide' option...etc???

[aaraneta_splunk]

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[niketn]

There could be multiple ways to do it. However, best suited would be based on your current drilldown definition and details like what kind of visualization with what value/token is being used for displaying a new panel, also what should be the condition to hide the new panel.

However, if you just want to hide based on check box Show (checked or unchecked) or Link Switcher Show/Hide, you can use panel depends attribute for the same. If you assign a token to it based on whether the token is set or unset the panel will be displayed or hidden accordingly. Similar to depends rejects attribute can also be used which performs vice-versa. For the first time you can set the token HidePanel for your drilldown.

        .....
        ..... 
                <input type="checkbox" token="hideFlag">
                  <label>Select Field</label>
                  <choice value="true">Hide</choice>
                </input>
              </fieldset>
              <row>
                <panel depends="$hideFlag$">
        .....
        .....

For similar examples on Depends/Rejects and Link Switcher you can check out Splunk 6.x Dashboard Examples app from Splunkbase.

[niketn]

@jhatton Were you able to try the above approach for your scenario.

[rjthibod]

Yes, but you need a mechanism that will dynamically unset the token value you defined to trigger the drilldown. This can be done with input buttons, toggle buttons, or many other methods. You would need to share more details about your specific use-case/XML in order to get more detailed help.

The basic gist is whenever the trigger occurs that should hide the drilldown, you would want to do something like <unset token="<YOUR_DRILLDOWN_TOKEN>"/>