[drraw-users] Trying to create a Grouped Dashboard with Templates Style Regex

[Christophe Kalt]

On Dec 18, Eric Law wrote:
| I've stumbled upon how to use the Template Base field more properly
| (details below),
| but I am still prompted for the 'View' when I click on the dashboard.

That's a bit odd since you have no "Base" "Template Style".
Although i'd have to check the code to be sure, the help page
also seems to indicate that only "standard" dashboards should
allow for views (with base template styles), and you should be
using a "grouped" dashboard given what i think you're trying
to do.

| Has anyone tinkered with the many javascript toolkits to make this
| more drag-n-drop?

I'm the only one to have played with javascript, and i've kept
it minimal in part to make sure that people who don't enable
javascript can still use drraw, although i suspect this isn't
something i should care about.
However, javascript enhancements come after real feature
enhancements, and i'm already struggling to find time for
these...

| Details below:
| 
| RRDfiles:
| I have somewhere around 80 RRD files with multiple datasources.
| Most are stored in subdirs based on application function and datacenter.
| 
| >From Template1:
|  Base Regular Expression: bycolo.(.*).pool
|  Selection Regular Expression: $1
|  Examples:
|     pools/pool-bycolo/datacenter1-admin/pool.rrd
|     pools/pool-bycolo/datacenter1-search/pool.rrd
|     pools/pool-bycolo/datacenter2-user/pool.rrd
|     pools/pool-bycolo/datacenter2-catalog/pool.rrd
|     I have about 80 of these
| 
| Dashboard:
| [1st template]
|  Template/Available Template Selections: Template1
|       Selection: datacenter1-admin
|       *note: this doesn't seem to be used,
|                but helps determine what your regex's are matched against?

Right, as per the help page ;)

|  Template Style: Regex
|  Template Base: (datacenter1.*)
|       *note: trying to filter on just the first datacenter

ok.

|  Row Name: ^datacenter.-(.*)
|       *note: trying to extract just the functional pool name for each row

ok.

| [2nd template]
|  Template/Available Template Selections: Template1
|       Selection: datacenter1-admin
|  Template Style: Regex
|  Template Base: (datacenter2.*)
|       *note: trying to filter on just the second datacenter
|  Row Name: ^datacenter.-(.*)
| 
| This seems to achieve the proper result
| (I was placing parenthesis elsewhere for the Template Base when I sent
| the email).

Yup, it seems alright.

| However, when I select this 'dashboard', it prompts me to select something,
| but the choice is only '1'.  Is that the 'filter' for the dashboard?
| I'm not sure why the dashboard is asking for feedback when I view it.

Try and remove the parentheses from the "Template Base"
regexps and let me know if that fixes the problem.

Christophe