The release notes for Platform 2023.3 mention a feature improvement:
SolarWinds Platform Maps updates: support for displaying the SolarWinds Platform Map on group details view dynamically, based on the group name variable.
Does anyone know exactly what this mean? How can I see exactly what is new here?
SolarWinds Platform 2023.3 Release Notes
That's the theory, but the selection has to be exact and match, I was able to get this to work.
E.g. if your group name is "Dallas" and a MAP name of "Dallas" select "${Name}"
if your group name is "Dallas" and a MAP name of "Group Dallas" select "Group ${Name}"
Clarification is definitely needed. Is this something that could be applied to other Groups as well?
Looks like it's a setting in the widget itself, add the SolarWinds Platform Map widget to the group details view, and click Choose Map. The setting is at the bottom called Map Name Format to select the syntax / method used to identify the map to use for the group.
Yup, I see that...but what does it do?
It defines a variable format to use to display the appropriate map. For example if I chose ${Name} - this would assume that the "Name" column of every group is the name of the Map to show on the view. Same with ${Id}, it assumes that the name of the Map is the Id.
There isn't actually a Caption field, so I'm assuming that's DisplayName.
Could view this data in SWQL Studio with this query:
SELECT g.ContainerID AS [Id] ,g.Name ,g.DisplayName AS [Caption]FROM Orion.Groups AS g
Another way to view the data real-time on the page, is add a custom html widget with this code in it:
Group ID: ${Id}Group Name: ${Name}Group Caption: ${Caption}
In other words…if I created a map called Dallas, then went to the group details view for a group called Dallas, added that widget and selected the Group ${Name} from the drop down it would show the Dallas map??
Makes sense...but it doesn't work :-(
