How it works...

The drilldown feature of dashboards can be utilized to get your users to the next set of data they need. When they click on a table entry or a part of a chart, they set off a search that can drill down into more details of the item they clicked. The behavior of the drilldown is controlled by the configuration of the panel in the Simple XML but also has a few options displayed by the dashboard editor.

When displaying a table of results, there are three options that can be chosen from, as shown in the following table:

Option
Description
Row
When a row is clicked, the search that is launched by the drilldown is based on the x-axis value, which is the first column in the row.
Cell
When a particular cell is clicked, ...

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