Powerchart search functionality in the tag browser

Hi,

The default powerchart tag browser of perspective lacks the search functionality, is there any workaround to add search function.

Thanks
Jayachandran M

There's no work around aside from creating this functionality yourself, either by using the Tree component and generating the nodes yourself via script, or some other component like a Table.

I have attempted this myself before, and i'll say that I found it difficult to produce a performant Tree structure when you have a lot of historised tags. There was a noticeable delay when lazy-loading tree nodes when expanding folders. I tried a number of things to reduce this like caching the tagpaths etc, but I couldn't get an acceptable lag. Loading the entire tree was not an option; there was a significant performance hit to the entire page when I first tested this (as I suspected there would be).

Going with a Table that is virtualised is far easier.