Hello Splunkers!
I'm trying to add a pie chart to one complicated dashboard, I have reduced the minimum non-working example to this:
<view template="dashboard.html">
<module name="HiddenSearch" autoRun="True">
<param name="search">dvc="192.6.1.249" | stats count by src_ip</param>
<param name="earliest">-15m</param>
<param name="latest">now</param>
<module name="HiddenChartFormatter">
<param name="charting.chart">pie</param>
<module name="JSChart" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1">
<param name="width">100%</param>
</module>
</module>
</module>
</view>
I can't spot the error, the search is returning correct results and if I create a simple XML with the same parameters it shows up nicely. Can anyone spot whats wrong here?
There's no layoutPanel on the first few modules, so they won't render anywhere at all. The real problem I think is that the view contains no Message module. Even in a custom view you should always make sure to have at least one Message module, and at least one with a "*" filter", so that you can catch big developer-level problems fast before you bang your head against them.
While some of the layoutPanel pitfalls no longer trigger red error messages, I think this particular case would have.
There is really no other developer-level messaging so working without a Message module, you're working a little blind.
As always I get the answer as soon as I ask in Splunkbase...
Changing the layoutpanel to the hiddensearch module (or the postprocess in the complex dashboard) seemed to resolve the issue!