topic Re: Navigation Menu in Security

I need to build a navigation menu for an app based on user roles. For example, I need a navigation menu which has views 'view1', 'view2' for users who are in 'user' role, I need a navigation menu which has views 'view1', 'view3' for users who are in 'admin role'. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this.

The navigation menu has only 'default.xml' and no easy way to customize it. Appreciate any feedback.

Re: Navigation Menu

Drainy — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:35:17 GMT

Users will only see the dashboards they have permissions to. As an Admin you will see them all, if you have a user group without permissions to view a dashboard then that dashboard will not appear in that users navigation view, despite it being in the default.xml

EDIT: Have a look here for a similar question I hit before, http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/37926/multiple-defaultxml-navs-specify-which-user-gets-what

Re: Navigation Menu

Sriram — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:34:57 GMT

I assumed the same. Unfortunately that is not happening. The first option in the menu is a "Supervisor_Dashboard" view which is visible only to admin, when a user who has 'user' role logs in. Splunk is throwing this error. "Splunk cannot find the "Supervisor_Dashboard" view."

Re: Navigation Menu

Sriram — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:46:56 GMT

Here is the sample navigation menu

Re: Navigation Menu

Drainy — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:50:18 GMT

Right, the first one is the default, Splunk is probably still trying to load it. Try setting one that all can access as a default and see what happens.

Re: Navigation Menu

Sriram — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:10:10 GMT

Cool. Although it is not exactly what I want, the suggestion you gave worked. My menu options are mutually exclusive for the roles. For now, I made as visible to both roles and made it default. I will go with it for now. Do you think it is a bug ? Thanks for your help.

Re: Navigation Menu

Drainy — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:31:08 GMT

I would argue that if the navigation isn't displaying the options per user permissions then it should move onto the next option by default which would be a bug. Either way its not behaving the way you would obviously expect. Do you have a support license?

Re: Navigation Menu

Sriram — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:42:10 GMT

Yes. We do. Do you suggest to file a bug report or enhancement request.

Re: Navigation Menu

Drainy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:59:39 GMT

Hm, I would treat it as a bug. Splunk can modify it if they disagree but since the permissions system is meant to work silently in the background and not show links to dashboards that users can't see, this is clearly failing in this instance as it will still try to load the default. It needs to be looking for the next "user permission approved" dashboard to use as the default