topic Re: modify dashboard view App & owner via REST API in Splunk Cloud Platform

How can I modify dashboard view App & owner via REST API?

imsidrai — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:58:56 GMT

How can i modify or update owner & app context for dashboard view/panel via REST API call ?

Re: modify dashboard view App & owner via REST API

richgalloway — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:54:59 GMT

Use a GET call to obtain the dashboard's XML definition. Modify the definition as required then use a PUT call to update the dashboard. See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.0/RESTREF/RESTknowledge#data.2Fui.2Fviews.2F.7Bname.7D

Re: modify dashboard view App & owner via REST API

imsidrai — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:20:15 GMT

@richgalloway
so this operation can not be done in bulk.. i have 100 of views (owned by a user who isnt part of organization) some of which i want to delete and reassign some to another app and user

Re: modify dashboard view App & owner via REST API

richgalloway — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:11:07 GMT

"bulk" was not part of the OP. Consider writing a script that performs the necessary operations on all 100 objects for you.

Re: modify dashboard view App & owner via REST API

imsidrai — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:05:25 GMT

so if i do like below in my code , that should work and change app & user context or for views the endpoint is different ?

dashboard_name = "view_name"

dashboard_xml_data = get_user_accounts_dashboard_xml(main_query_user_accounts, addon_query_user_accounts_sum)

data = {'output_mode': 'json',

'owner': 'test_user',

'app_name: 'test_app'

}

response = requests.post( splunk_server + '/servicesNS/' + app_author + '/' + app_name + '/data/ui/views/' + view_name +"/acl", data=data,

auth=(user, password), verify=False)

Re: modify dashboard view App & owner via REST API

richgalloway — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:46:37 GMT

At a high level, that appears to be a good approach.