The Dropdown view displays a dropdown list with a set of choices. The list can be bound to a search manager, but can also be used as a standard HTML dropdown list that emits change events.
Name | Default value | Description |
| id | Required. The unique ID for this control. | |
| allowCustomValues | false | Indicates whether to allow custom values to be entered. |
| choices | [] | A static dictionary of options for the dropdown list. If bound to a managerid, the static choices specified here are prepended to the dynamic choices from the search. For example: var mychoices = [
{label:"text1", value: "value1"},
{label:"text2", value: "value2"},
{label:"text3", value: "value3"}
];
|
| default | The default choice. | |
| disabled | false | Indicates whether to disable the view. |
| initialValue | The initial value of the input. If defaultis specified, it overrides this value. | |
| labelField | "" | The UI label to display for each choice. |
| managerid | null | The ID of the search manager to bind this view to. |
| minimumResultsForSearch | 8 | The minimum number of results. |
| selectFirstChoice | "false" | Indicates whether to use the first available choice when the user has not made a selection. If the default property has been set, that value is used instead. |
| settings | The properties of the view. See the methods below to get and set values. | |
| showClearButton | true | Indicates whether to display that "x" next to choices, allowing a selection to be cleared. |
| value | The value of the current choice. | |
| valueField | "" | The value or search field for each choice. |
| width | 200 | The width of the view, in pixels. |
Name | Description |
| render | Draws the view to the screen. Called only when you create the view manually. |
| val | Returns the view's value if passed no parameters. Sets the view's value if passed a single parameter. |
| settings.get( property ) | Returns the value of property for the current component. |
| settings.set( property, value ) | Sets the value of property to the specified value for the current component. |
Name | Description |
| change | Fired when the value of the view changes. |
require([
"splunkjs/mvc/searchmanager",
"splunkjs/mvc/dropdownview",
"splunkjs/mvc/simplexml/ready!"
], function(SearchManager, DropdownView) {
// Use this search to populate the dropdown with index values
new SearchManager({
id: "example-search",
search: "| eventcount summarize=false index=* index=_* | dedup index | fields index"
});
// Instantiate components
new DropdownView({
id: "example-dropdown",
managerid: "example-search",
default: "main",
labelField: "index",
valueField: "index",
el: $("#mydropdownview")
}).render();
});