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Use lookups with a view

Important notice: The Advanced XML dashboard framework is officially deprecated. For more information, see Advanced XML Deprecation.

There are many ways to use the lookup feature with views. If you are not familiar with building lookup tables, refer to the "Configure CSV and external lookups" and "Configure KV store lookups" topics in the Knowledge Manager Manual.

Here are a few examples of using lookups in views. There are many different ways to use lookups – these examples give you an idea of the possibilities.

Lookups and dropdowns

This example shows a dashboard that has two dropdowns, one to select country and one to select a city in that country. The city dropdown is populated by a lookup called "citylookup" that dynamically populates the dropdown based on the country selection. The part of the XML that calls the lookup is within the SearchSelectLister module.

. . .
<module name="SearchSelectLister">
  <param name="settingToCreate">pref</param>
  <param name="label">City</param>
  <param name="applyOuterIntentionsToInternalSearch">True</param>
  <param name="search">| inputlookup myLookup2</param>
  <param name="searchFieldsToDisplay">
    <list>
     <param name="label">city</param>
     <param name="value">city</param>
    </list>
  </param>
. . .


Here is the code for the two dropdowns:

. . .
<module name="StaticSelect">
  <param name="settingToCreate">area</param>
  <param name="label">Country</param>
  
  <param name="staticFieldsToDisplay">
    <list>
      <param name="label">USA</param>
      <param name="value">USA</param>
    </list>
    <list>
      <param name="label">Japan</param>
      <param name="value">Japan</param>
    </list>
    <list>
      <param name="label">China</param>
      <param name="value">China</param>
    </list>
    <list>
      <param name="label">Germany</param>
      <param name="value">Germany</param>
    </list>
  </param>
  
    <module name="ConvertToIntention">
      <param name="settingToConvert">area</param>
      <param name="intention">
        <param name="name">addterm</param>
        <param name="arg">
          <param name="area">$target$</param>
        </param>
      </param>

      <module name="SearchSelectLister">
        <param name="settingToCreate">pref</param>
        <param name="label">City</param>
        <param name="applyOuterIntentionsToInternalSearch">True</param>
        <param name="search">| inputlookup citylookup</param>
        <param name="searchFieldsToDisplay">
          <list>
            <param name="label">city</param>
            <param name="value">city</param>
          </list>
        </param>
        
         <module name="ConvertToIntention">
           <param name="settingToConvert">pref</param>
           <param name="intention">
             <param name="name">addterm</param>
             <param name="arg">
               <param name="pref">$target$</param>
             </param>
           </param>
         </module> <!-- End ConvertToIntention -->
         . . .
      </module> <!-- End SearchSelectLister -->
    </module> <!-- End ConvertToIntention -->
</module> <!-- End StaticSelect -->
. . .
Last modified on 13 August, 2019
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