Tiles in Link Visualization

Use tiles in link visualization to show summary data. This feature consolidates multiple individual tiles into one. Therefore, replacing multiple tiles with a tiles in link visualization in a dashboard provides performance improvement when loading the dashboard.

You can include queries, visualizations, and modify the look and feel of each tile. You can create the tile definition in XML format. The tiles can be of the type Field, Text, Link, Inline, Visualization, Condition, Separator, and Expander.

The following is an example of using multiple tiles in a visualization:

For the XML definition of the above example tile, see XML Definition of the Example Tile. For the full set of examples of the tile layouts, their corresponding queries, and XML definitions, see Examples of Tile Layout in Link.

The tile in link visualization is configured using the layout tags and tile tags in the XML definition. For more details about these tags and the options available for configuring, see:

XML Definition of the Example Tile

The following is the XML definition for the example tiles presented earlier:

<summary>
  <container background-color="rgba(228, 245, 211, 0.5)">
    <title>
      <title-icon font-size="medium" color="rgb(231, 131, 0)">oj-ux-ico-user-available</title-icon>
      <title-text font-size="large" color="rgb(255, 0, 0)">Users</title-text>
    </title>
    <table>
      <row>
        <column>
          <tiles background-color="#24c4c4">
            <title><title-text color="rgb(0, 0, 255)">Actors</title-text></title>
            <tile type="link" field="Risky" href="http://example.com" font-size="small" color="priority-high" format="currency" currency="USD"/>
            <tile field="Actives" format="currency" currency="USD"/>
          </tiles>
        </column>
        <column>
          <tiles>
            <title><title-text>Threats</title-text></title>
            <tile type="condition">
              <condition type="if" field="Critical" operator=">=" value="203120">
                <tile type="text" icon="oj-ux-ico-check-circle" field="All" color="priority-low" font-size="large"/>
                <tile type="link" field="Critical" href="show(destination-endpoint)">
                  <title align="bottom"><title-text font-size="2.1vmax" color="#000000">Critical Bottom</title-text></title>
                </tile>
              </condition>
            </tile>
            <tile type="condition">
              <condition type="if" field="High" operator="NOT NULL">
                <tile field="High" color="rgba(123, 20, 219, 1)"/>
              </condition>
            </tile>
            <tile field="Medium" background-color="#24c4c4"/>
            <tile type="text" field="Low"/>
            <tile type="separator"/>
            <tile type="text" field="Suppressed">
              <title align="bottom"><title-text>Suppressed</title-text></title>
            </tile>
          </tiles>
        </column>
        <column>
          <tiles id="destination-endpoint" hidden="true">
            <title><title-text>Destination Endpoints</title-text></title>
            <tile type="inline">
              <title><title-text>Inline Tile</title-text></title>
              <tile field="RiskyEP" href="http://example.com"><title/></tile>
              <tile value=" out of " type="text"><title/></tile>
              <tile field="Low"><title/></tile>
            </tile>
            <tile type="link" field="Accessed" format="currency" currency="USD" color="rgba(212, 73, 38, 1)"/>
          </tiles>
        </column>
      </row>
      <row>
       <column>
          <tiles layout="table" columns="2">
            <title><title-text>Threats</title-text></title>
            <tile type="condition">
              <condition type="if" field="Critical" operator=">=" value="2031201">
                <tile type="text" value="Should not be visible"/>
              </condition>
              <condition type="if" field="Critical" operator="!=" value="2031201">
                <tile type="text" field="All"/>
              </condition>
            </tile>
            <tile type="condition">
              <condition type="if" field="Critical" operator=">=" value="200000">
                <tile type="text" field="Critical" color="rgb(255,0,0)"/>
                <tile type="text" field="High"/>
              </condition>
              <condition type="if" field="Critical" operator=">=" value="100000">
                <tile type="text" field="Critical" color="rgb(255,255,0)"/>
              </condition>
              <condition type="else">
                <tile type="text" field="Critical" color="rgb(0,255,0)"/>
              </condition>
            </tile>
            <tile type="condition">
              <condition type="if" field="TextField" operator="NOT IN" value="outside,beside,insider">
                <tile type="text" field="Low"/>
              </condition>
            </tile>
            <tile type="separator" display="horizontal"/>
            <tile type="condition">
              <condition type="if" field="RiskyEP" operator="IN" value="124,213,25">
                <tile type="text" field="Suppressed"/>
              </condition>
            </tile>
          </tiles>
        </column>
        <column>
          <tiles>
            <title><title-text>Spark Two Tiles</title-text></title>
            <tile type="chart" chart-type="sparkline">
              <chart-value field="CPU usage">10,9,8,20,19,18,30,29,28</chart-value>
            </tile>
            <tile field="orcl"/>
          </tiles>
        </column>
        <column>
          <tiles>
            <title><title-text>Only Spark</title-text></title>
            <tile type="chart" chart-type="sparkline" >
              <title><title-icon>oj-ux-ico-airplay</title-icon><title-text>Mem Used Chart</title-text></title>
              <chart-value field="Memory Used">10,9,8,7,6,5,6,7,8,9,10</chart-value>
            </tile>
          </tiles>
        </column>
        <column>
          <tiles>
            <title><title-text>Visualization</title-text></title>
            <tile type="chart" chart-type="sparkline">
              <title><title-text>Static Spark</title-text></title>
              <chart-value color="rgba(255, 0, 0, 1)">0,1,2,3,4,5,6,2,4,10,3,19,6,5,2,0</chart-value>
            </tile>
            <!-- This is a test comment -->
          </tiles>
        </column>
      </row>
    </table>
  </container>
  <container>
    <title><title-text>Hosts</title-text></title>
    <table>
      <row>
        <column>
          <tiles>
            <title><title-text>Host Issues</title-text></title>
            <tile type="text" field="Risky"/>
            <tile type="text" field="Active"/>
            <tile type="link" field="All" href="show(id=all-tile)"/>
            <tile type="expander">
              <tile type="link" field="Critical" href="show(id=critical-det, expand=bottom, bounding-box=false)"/>
              <expandtiles id="critical-det">
                <tile value="Expanded View">
                  <title><title-text>Detail Tile</title-text></title>
                </tile>
              </expandtiles>
            </tile>
          </tiles>
        </column>
        <column>
          <tiles id="all-tile">
            <title><title-text>Host Works</title-text></title>
            <tile type="text" field="RiskyEP">
              <title><title-text>Risky</title-text></title>
            </tile>
            <tile type="link" value="Accessed" href="http://oracle.com">
              <title><title-text>Link Value</title-text></title>
            </tile>
          </tiles>
        </column>
      </row>
    </table>
  </container>
</summary>

The sample query used for the layout of the example presented earlier:

* | link 
    | eval Risky = 10.21 | eval Actives = 20 | eval All = 2390 
    | eval Critical = 203120 | eval High = 11 | eval Medium = 78 
    | eval Suppressed = 20 | eval Low = 300 | eval RiskyEP = 25 | eval Accessed = 132 
    | eval TextField = inside
    | eval orcl = url('https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/logging-analytics/doc/perform-advanced-analytics-link.html', 'View Documentation')

Tile Editor

To create Tiles, from the Link console, click Tiles, and from the menu, click New. The Tile Editor with a custom template opens. Alternatively, to edit the existing tile, click Tiles, and from the menu, click Edit. The Tile Editor provides syntax highlighting and validation for the tile definition.

The XML definition is of the format:

<summary>
  <container>
    <table>
      <row>
        <column>
          <tiles>
            <tile></tile>
            <tile></tile>
          </tiles>
        <column>
      </row>
    </table>
  </container>
</summary>

Edit the XML definition of the tile to customize it.

You can use Ctrl-Q (or Cmd-Q) to expand and collapse a tile in the editor. Place the cursor on any tile and press Ctrl-Q (or Cmd-Q) to collapse the tile.

Layout Tags

These are the tags that describe the layout of the tiles, but not the layout of the text inside a tile.

Topics:

Summary Tags

The tile definition must be placed inside summary tags:

<summary></summary>

Container Tags

This describes the container or the top level grouping of tiles, and is mandatory.

<container display="none" background-color="rgba(228, 245, 211, 0.5)">
  <title>
    <title-text color="rgb(255,0,0)" font-size="30px">Users</title-text>
  </title>
</container>

display: This is an optional attribute of the container and is used to control the container panel display. If display is set to none, then the panel won't be displayed, including the title or the background-color.
background-color: This attribute defines the background color of the container. This is optional attribute. If not specified, then the default value used is oj-bg-neutral-30 redwood class. The accepted input values are in rgb, rgba or hex format.
title tag: This is an optional attribute and is used to give a title to the container. You can specify custom color or font size using the corresponding attributes of the tag.

Table, Row, Column Tags

Table Tag: This is a mandatory tag and describes the start of a table. There can be only one table under each container.
Row Tag: This is a mandatory tag. Each table needs to have a minimum of one row. There can be multiple rows under each table. If you specify <row type="separator"></row>, then a horizontal separator is rendered in the console.
Column Tag: This is a mandatory tag and describes each column in a row. There can be multiple columns under each row.

Tiles Tag

This is a mandatory tag and describes a list of tiles. There can be one or many <tile> tags under this tag. The rendering of tiles can be controlled using layout and columns attribute.

By default, the layout is horizontal. However, you can select table layout by setting layout to table and providing the number of columns per row in the columns attribute.

A tiles tag can have optional id and hidden attributes. The id attribute can be used to show or hide the contents. The hidden attribute defines if the content should be hidden by default. The value can be true or false.

The title tag is an optional attribute and is used to give a title to the tile. You can use a custom color or font size by using the color and font-size attributes of the tag.

<tiles layout="table" columns="2" id="tiles-1" hidden="true">
  <title>
    <title-text color="#ff0000" font-size="20px">Threats</title-text>
  </title>
  <tile></tile>
  <tile></tile>
</tiles>

Tile Tags

The tile tag describes each individual tile. The attributes of the tile tag will depend on the type of the tile. It can have optional id and hidden attributes.

The id attribute is used to show or hide contents. The hidden attribute specifies if the content should be hidden by default. The value of the attribute can be true or false.

The tile tag can be used to display static text, or the value of a field. If a field is used, then the value of the field from the first row of the link table is used.

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Field Tile

This is a tile used to display the value of a field. The field can have an optional title. The type of the field is automatically inferred. If the field is formatted using unit, then that unit is automatically displayed. If the field is formatted as a link using the url function, then a link will be displayed.

Since there can be more than one value for the field, the value from the first row of the link table is used. You must make sure to bring the desired value to the first row of the table. You can use the eventstats command if you need to roll up a value.

<tile field="Response Time" icon="oj-ux-ico-check-circle" icon-align="after"/>
<tile field="Response Time"><title><title-text>Time Taken</title-text></title></tile>
<tile field="Response Time"><title/></tile>
<tile field="High" color="rgba(123, 20, 219, 1)">
  <title align="bottom">
    <title-text color="#00FF00" font-size="20px">High Threats</title-text>
  </title>
</tile>
<tile field="Active" format="currency" currency="USD"/>

title tag: <title> Tag

color: color

font-size: font-size

format and currency: format is an optional attribute and is used to give a format to the field value. Currently, the format currency is supported. The type of currency is specified with the currency attribute.

icon: icon

icon-align: icon-align

Text Tile

This is a tile used to display a single text value. Currently, the tile can be formatted with the type currency.

<tile type="text" value="300" color="rgba(123, 20, 219, 1)">
  <title align="bottom">
    <title-text color="#00FF00" font-size="20px">High Threats</title-text>
  </title>
</tile>
 
<tile type="text" value="Infrastructure" color="#FF0000" font-size="30px" icon="oj-ux-ico-check-circle" icon-align="before"/>
 
<tile type="text" value="15000" format="currency" currency="USD"/>

type: This is optional for the tile of the type text.

value: value

title tag: <title> Tag

color: color

font-size: font-size

format and currency: format is an optional attribute and is used to give a format to the tile value. Currently, the format currency is supported. The type of currency is specified with the currency attribute.

icon: icon

icon-align: icon-align

Link Tile

This is a tile used for displaying a link. The link can either be a static link or can come from a url link field. A link tile can also be used to show or hide another tile or tiles.

<tile type="link" field="Risky" href="http://example.com" icon="oj-ux-ico-check-circle" icon-align="before"/>
 
<tile type="link" value="12345" format="currency" currency="USD" color="rgba(212, 73, 38, 1)" href="http://oracle.com"/>
 
<tile type="link" field="orcl">
  <title align="bottom">
    <title-text color="rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.5)">Oracle</title-text>
  </title>
</tile>
 
<tile type="link" href="show(another-tile)" value="Click Me"/>

type: This attribute describes the type of the tile. This is an optional attribute which can be used only if the field used in the field attribute comes from the url function.

field: field

href: This is an optional attribute and has the value of the link. This is the value used if the field is not of the type url or if it's a static value.

Use show(id) in href attribute to show or hide another tile(s).

value: value

color: If not specified, then the default color used is #02629f color.

font-size: font-size

title tag: <title> Tag

icon: icon

icon-align: icon-align

Inline Tile

The inline tile used to format a string.

<tile type="inline">
  <title><title-text>Inline Tile</title-text></title>
  <tile field="RiskyEP" href="http://example.com"><title/></tile>
  <tile type="text" value=" out of "><title/></tile>
  <tile field="All"><title/></tile>
</tile>

type: This attribute describes the type of the tile.

title tag: <title> Tag

tile tag: The tiles can be nested under inline tiles. It supports all tiles except for chart, expander, and other inline tiles. Only the value part of nested tiles is evaluated, and not the title.

Visualization Tile

This tile is used to display a visualization. Currently, visualization of the type sparkline is supported.

<tile type="chart" chart-type="sparkline" >
  <title align="bottom">
    <title-text>Mem Used Chart</title-text>
  </title>
</tile>

title tag: <title> Tag

type: This attribute describes the type of tile, and is a mandatory value. For the text tile, the value is chart.

chart-type: This attribute is mandatory and describes the type of visualization. Currently, the supported value is spark.

Sparkline Tile

<tile type="chart" chart-type="sparkline" >
  <title><title-text>Mem Used Chart</title-text></title>
  <chart-value field="Memory Used">
    <chart-by-clause field="Pod" value="oci-la-fluentd-testobjects-deployment-6d8f786cb7-rss4h"/>
    <chart-by-clause field="Node" value="10.0.10.75"/>
  </chart-value>
</tile>
 
<tile type="chart" chart-type="sparkline">
  <title><title-text>Static Sparkline</title-text></title>
  <chart-value color="rgba(255, 0, 0, 1)">0,1,2,3,4,5,6,2,4,10,3,19,6,5,2,0</chart-value>
</tile>

chart-value: This is a value tag. Use it to provide static values or to specify a field from which values can be extracted. Use the color attribute to define the color of the chart.
chart-by-clause: This is a tag used to provide values for by clause. You can add field names as attributes and provide the values as shown in the example above.

Condition Tile

This is a tile used for processing conditions. Use it to show or hide one or more tiles based on the condition. Conditions will be evaluated in order. In case of a match, the tiles are displayed. If there is no match and there is an else condition, then the else condition is evaluated. There is no elseif condition. However, you can get the same behavior by using multiple if conditions.

<tile type="condition">
  <condition type="if" field="Critical" operator="gt" value="100">
    <tile type="text" field="Critical" color="rgb(255, 0, 0)"/>
  </condition>
  <condition type="if" field="Critical" operator="gt" value="30">
    <tile type="text" field="Critical" color="rgb(255, 255, 0)"/>
  </condition>
  <condition type="else">
    <tile type="text" field="Critical" color="rgb(0, 0, 255)"/>
  </condition>
</tile>

type: This attribute describes the type of tile and is a mandatory value. For the text tile, the value is condition.

condition tag: This tag describes the condition that needs to be evaluated.

type: Type of condition. The values can be if or else.
field: This is the field whose value is to be compared.

operator: The operator to be used for evaluation,

Operator	Description
`=`	EQUAL
`!=`	NOT EQUAL
`gt`	GREATER THAN
`lt`	LESS THAN
`>=`	GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO
`<=`	LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO
`NULL`	IS NULL
`NOT NULL`	IS NOT NULL
`IN`	IN
`NOT IN`	NOT IN

value: value

tile tag: This tag defines the tile that will be displayed if the condition evaluates to true.

Separator Tile

This is used to show a separator between tiles.

<tile type="separator" display="horizontal"/>

type: The type of tile. This is a mandatory value and for text tile, the value is separator.

display: Use this attribute to define if the separator must be horizontal or vertical. The default value is vertical.

Expander Tile

This tile is used to show a tile when a link is clicked on another tile. It can be used to show the summary-detail relationship.

<tile type="expander">
  <tile field="All" href="show(text-tile, left, false)"/>
  <expandtiles id="text-tile">
    <tile type="text" value="Show This">
      <title><title-text>Hidden Tile</title-text></title>
    </tile>
  </expandtiles>
</tile>
 
<tile type="expander">
  <tile field="All" href="show(id=show-tile, expand=right, bounding-box=true)"/>
  <expandtiles id="show-tile">
    <tile type="text" value="Show This">
      <title><title-text>Hidden Tile</title-text></title>
    </tile>
  </expandtiles>
</tile>

An expander must have two tiles under it. One of the tiles must be a link tile with the href attribute defined as show(<EXPANDED_TILE_ID>, <EXPAND_DIRECTION>, <REQUIRE_BOUNDING_BOX>) where:

EXPANDED_TILE_ID: ID of the tile displayed when the link is clicked
EXPAND_DIRECTION: The location where the tile must be displayed. This can have following values:

left - Show tile to the left of the link tile

right - Show tile to the right of the link tile

top - Show tile at the top of the link tile

bottom - Show tile at the bottom of the link tile

replace - Replace the link tile
REQUIRE_BOUNDING_BOX: If set to true, then a border encloses the link and the expanded tile.

Common Tags

Listed here are some of the common tags used in the tiles.

Topics:

<title> Tag

You can use the <title> tag to define the title content for an element. <title> is not mandatory. You can omit the title, or provide an empty <title/> to not display a title. <title> is a container tag for the <title-text> and <title-icon> tags that define the title content.

To align the title elements, use the align attribute.

<title-text>

Use the <title-text> to define a title. You can hard-code the title using the value attribute, or use the value of a field using the field attribute.

You can use more than one <title-text> attribute to construct a dynamic text.

Example:

<title>
<!--
* | link 'Log Source' | eval 'Number of Servers' = 10 | eval 'Storage Capacity' = unit(1230, gb)
-->
 <title-text>You have </title-text>
 <title-text field="Number of Servers"/>
 <title-text> Servers, and </title-text>
 <title-text field="Storage Capacity"/>
 <title-text> of Storage.</title-text>
</title>

The following are the attributes supported by the <title-text> tag:

Content: field
Positioning: align for the <title> tag under a <tile> tag
Look and feel:

<title-icon>

Use this tag to display an icon for a title. This tag needs to be defined under a <title> tag.

You can use more than one <title-icon> to display multiple icons. The text and icons are ordered in the same order defined in the tile definition.

Example:

<tiles>
 <title>
  <title-text>Server </title-text>
  <title-icon font-size="large" color="#BF360C">oj-ux-ico-check-circle-s</title-icon>
  <title-text> Storage </title-text>
  <title-icon font-size="large" color="#1B5E20">oj-ux-ico-check-circle-s</title-icon>
  <title-text> Network </title-text>             
  <title-icon font-size="large" color="#FFEB3B">oj-ux-ico-check-circle-s</title-icon>
 </title>
</tiles>

The following are the attributes supported by the <title-icon> tag:

Content: field
Positioning: align for the <title> tag under a <tile> tag
Look and feel:

Commonly Used Attributes

The following attributes are used in multiple tags to create tiles.

Topics:

field

Use the field attribute in a <tile> or <title-text> tag to display the value of that field. If the field is marked using a unit, then the value is formatted accordingly.

The field attribute is used inside a <condition> tag to specify the field on which to check the condition.

The field attribute is also used in the <chart-value> and <chart-by-clause> tags.

Note

The value of the field is taken from the first row of the link table, when used with the <tile>, <title-text>, or <condition> tags. It is used to pickup the name of the chart when used with the <chart-value> clause. It is used to specify the value of the by clause for charts using a by-clause, when used in the <chart-by-clause> tag.

value

Use the value attribute in a <tile> or <title-text> to supply a hard-coded value. In a <condition> clause, this is used to specify the value of the field to be matched. In a <chart-by-clause> tag, the value specifies the time series that should be displayed in the chart.

icon

Use this attribute to display an icon in a tile. You can use the icon-align attribute to control the position of the icon, with respect to the field or text value. The icon must be the name of the icon from Oracle's Icon Repository.

Example:

<tiles>
 <tile icon="oj-ux-ico-check-circle-s" icon-color="#22BB00" color="#000000" value=" No Issues"/>
</tiles>

align

Use this attribute to align the title above or below the contents. Valid values are top or bottom.

icon-align

Use this attribute to control the alignment of the icon within a tile. Valid values are before and after.

Example:

<tiles>
 <tile font-size="medium" icon="oj-ux-ico-arrow-circle-down" icon-align="after" value=" Server 1 " >
  <title>
   <title-icon color="#BF360C">oj-ux-ico-warning</title-icon>
   <title-text>Server Status</title-text>               
  </title>
 </tile>
</tiles>

font-size

You can use this attribute to control the font size for any value. You can provide explicit pixel size, or use one of the following predefined sizes:

small (18px)
medium (25px)
large (30px)

color

Use this attribute to define the color of the text or an icon. You can define the color using hex, rgb, or rgba values.

background-color

Use this attribute to define the fill or background color of a container. You can define the color using hex, rgb, or rgba values.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

XML Definition of the Example Tile

Tile Editor

Layout Tags

Tile Tags

Common Tags

Commonly Used Attributes