Building a drilldown to multiple panels using HiddenPostProcess

Taking the last dashboard further, let's build a number of panels from a single custom drilldown query. As we covered in Chapter 5, Simple XML Dashboards, search results can be post processed, allowing you to use the same query results in multiple ways. In advanced XML, this is accomplished using the HiddenPostProcess module.

We will also add the chrome for our first complete dashboard. Here is an abbreviated example. The complete dashboard is in the Chapter9_drilldown_to_new_graph_with_postprocess.xml file in the Implementing Splunk App One app:

<view template="dashboard.html"> <Label>Chapter 9 - Drilldown to new graph with postprocess</label> <!-- The chrome at the top of the ...

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