https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-order-of-apps-in-the-launcher-page-for-all-the/m-p/429470#M10106 <P>This is how I do it. I found this solution a while back when searching on Splunk Answers:</P> <PRE><CODE># SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/user-prefs/local/user-prefs.conf [general_default] appOrder = app1,app2,app2 </CODE></PRE> <P>This will set the app order for all users.</P> <P>Please note that if a user explicitly set his own appOrder (via drag and drop) then I believe the user's settings will take precedence. So if the above solution does not immediately work for your user, create a new user and see if it works then.</P> <P>Also remember to restart Splunk after making changes to configuration files.</P> <P>On a side note: You can also specify which app is opened automatically when logging into Splunk by setting "default_namespace":</P> <PRE><CODE>[general_default] appOrder = app1,app2,app2 default_namespace = app1 </CODE></PRE> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:12:49 GMT whrg 2019-03-12T17:12:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-order-of-apps-in-the-launcher-page-for-all-the/m-p/429469#M10105 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I am trying to setup the order of apps in the launcher page but I am unable to do so.<BR /> I tried creating<BR /> SPLUNK_HOME(searchHead)/etc/system/local/user-prefs.conf<BR /> [general]<BR /> appOrder = app1, app2,app3,app4</P> <P>Restarted the searchhead, but this didn't work.</P> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:37:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-order-of-apps-in-the-launcher-page-for-all-the/m-p/429469#M10105 saurabh009 2019-03-12T15:37:54Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-order-of-apps-in-the-launcher-page-for-all-the/m-p/429470#M10106 <P>This is how I do it. I found this solution a while back when searching on Splunk Answers:</P> <PRE><CODE># SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/user-prefs/local/user-prefs.conf [general_default] appOrder = app1,app2,app2 </CODE></PRE> <P>This will set the app order for all users.</P> <P>Please note that if a user explicitly set his own appOrder (via drag and drop) then I believe the user's settings will take precedence. So if the above solution does not immediately work for your user, create a new user and see if it works then.</P> <P>Also remember to restart Splunk after making changes to configuration files.</P> <P>On a side note: You can also specify which app is opened automatically when logging into Splunk by setting "default_namespace":</P> <PRE><CODE>[general_default] appOrder = app1,app2,app2 default_namespace = app1 </CODE></PRE> Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:12:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-order-of-apps-in-the-launcher-page-for-all-the/m-p/429470#M10106 whrg 2019-03-12T17:12:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-order-of-apps-in-the-launcher-page-for-all-the/m-p/429471#M10107 <P>I am able to implement and test same in un-clustered search head environment, below are steps for same:-<BR /> 1) Login to search head UI and drag drop the apps in the order we want.<BR /> 2) Copy the settings for appOrder from [general] stanza which got created under<BR /> Splunk_home/etc/users/MyLoginId/user-prefs/local/user-prefs.conf<BR /> 3) Create below file with copied stanza with specified setting <BR /> Splunk_home/etc/system/local/user-prefs.conf<BR /> This file will override all the appOrders created for any user in any user-prefs.conf.<BR /> 4) restart the splunk search head to see the changes.</P> <P>For clustered search heads we need to do it manually on all search heads inside system/local folder because if we create an app and push it from DS then user setting will take precedence.</P> <P>Thanks for all the inputs provided.</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:37:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-order-of-apps-in-the-launcher-page-for-all-the/m-p/429471#M10107 saurabh009 2020-09-29T23:37:25Z