Drill downs

[ 1 What permissions do I need? ] [ 2 Create a drill down target ] [ 3 Use a drill down target in a search ]

By using the drill down functionality, you can easily access different URLs inputting data table values with just a few clicks. You can include a placeholder in a specific URL, then capture a clicked value in a data table and pass it as a placeholder to the target URL (GET request), or use a data table value as a parameter in the body of your request (POST request).

Drill down targets are defined in the Domain Preferences area of the application, which must include the target URL and the type of data to be selected in your data table. Drill down targets are available for all the users in the domain and can be used in every single data table.

What permissions do I need?

In order to define domain preferences, you need to have the Admin role. To learn more about permissions, go to Managing Roles.

Create a drill down target

Use a drill down target in a search

Go to Data Search and access the data table that contains the values to be used as placeholders/parameters in your target URL.
After querying the data as required to get the necessary results, right-click the cell value to be used as a placeholder/parameter. You will see a window that lists all the available drill down targets that match the selected data type.
Click the required drill down target. If you selected GET as sending method, the clicked value will be added to the URL, replacing the indicated placeholder. If you selected POST, the clicked value will be added to the parameter indicated in the drill down. The target URL will be opened in a new browser window.

Example - using drill down to perform a GET request

We have a data table that tracks visits to the Devo Docs, and we want to make it interactive so that users can click on a column value and access the corresponding Docs article, performing a GET request.

First, we create the drill down target in the Preferences → Domain Preferences area in the Drill downs tab. We enter as target URL https://docs.devo.com/confluence/ndt/$section and enter the $section placeholder.

Once created, we go to Data Search and access our data table. By just right-clicking any of the paths corresponding to the Devo Docs articles and selecting the created drill down target (Devo Docs) a new browser window will open the target URL with the placeholder ($section) set to the clicked value.