topic Re: Export Views To Only One Specific App in Security

Export Views To Only One Specific App

David — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:06:21 GMT

I wan't to find the right way to share views between different apps, with granularity as to the app.

In my Splunk instance, I have a number of different Apps:

ITSystem1
ITSystem2
ITDashboards
InternalApp1

I would like MyCompany's nav to be able to include the contents of ITSystem1 and ITSystem2 (e.g., having a main app with different subapps). I've got this working by export = systeming the views in ITSystem1 and ITSystem2. This was slightly ugly when I tried to look at things in manager, but still reasonable.

Now I'm adding InternalApp1, which is a sales tool, and I would like to have things like the default Saved Searches nav list working. But because I have to export so many things for my ITSystem apps to system, the nav is filled with tons of content that shouldn't be listed in InternalApp1.

What's the best way to do this?

Re: Export Views To Only One Specific App

hazekamp — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:59:59 GMT

David,

As of 4.2.0, you only have the option of exporting content within the app it's contained, or system wide. Per default.meta.spec:

# Set access controls on a specific view in this app.
[views/index_status]
access = read : [ admin ], write : [ admin ]
* Allow only admin users to read or modify this view.

# Make this view available in all apps.
export = system
* To make this view available only in this app, set 'export = none' instead.
owner = admin
* Set admin as the owner of this view.

Re: Export Views To Only One Specific App

David — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:40:25 GMT

So that means I can't export something to only one particular app, correct? Or alternatively, I can't prevent another app from inheriting views?

Re: Export Views To Only One Specific App

hazekamp — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:54:17 GMT

That's correct. If you export something as 'none', it is only available from within the contained app. Exporting as 'system' will make it available to all visible apps.

Re: Export Views To Only One Specific App

David — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:25:15 GMT

Okay. I've filed this as an enhancement request.

Re: Export Views To Only One Specific App

David — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 04:17:19 GMT

This doesn't appear to be possible at this juncture, but has been filed as an enhancement request. Rationale provided for the change:

As it currently stands, this is messy and a disincentive to publishing Apps to Splunkbase. It's a hassle to maintain two copies for an app -- one for Splunkbase and one for internal consumption, so exporting views is valuable. But filling the nav on user-facing apps with lots of totally unrelated objects makes it difficult to use, and makes users less likely to actually use Splunk for anything but pre-canned reports.

Re: Export Views To Only One Specific App

Starlette — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:41:19 GMT

I got this question a lot as well, would be nice to see it filled!

Re: Export Views To Only One Specific App

effem — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:35:53 GMT

Still not done yet?