SplunkJS: How to hide a column in a TableView but still have the hidden field values available in drilldown tokens.

[sideview]

I have several fields that are ID fields, for which both the names and the values are quite long. I need these id fields to all be present because they are crucial for table drilldown interaction, but I want to keep them from rendering in the table, taking up space and distracting the user.

Looking in the docs, examples, tutorials, example apps etc, I haven't been able to find anything that talked about this.

[sideview · Accepted solution]

In the end the answer ended up being right in the most obvious place - you specify the fields you want to be visible in "fields" param on TableView. When I had first read this property I assumed that not specifying a field in this param meant those values wouldn't be present in the drilldown context. However that's not the case.

I do wish there was a second optional property, "hiddenFields", mutually exclusive with "fields", so I could have it render all fields EXCEPT certain fields I tell it about, but that's me wishing for things.

Along the way I had many happy adventures trying to do this using very complex mechanisms. I tried my hand at writing a custom CellRenderer class, and when that was more trouble than it was worth I was able to hook into the underlying bootstrap "rendered" event to go hide the relevant columns and cells on every render, basically with:

table.listenTo(table.table, 'rendered', function(){ console.log("evil things go here"); }, table);

But compared to the fields property, those were pretty bad ideas!! I mention them only so that other similarly lost souls are able to find this page in the future.