topic How do I display Saved Reports in custom navigation menu in Splunk Dev

How do I display Saved Reports in custom navigation menu

tkhatri — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 21:59:53 GMT

Hi All,

I want to customize the navigation menu in my custom app to display five different reports in a drop down. I followed documentation https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/createapps/addnavsplunkapp/ and was able to display dashboard but reports are not getting displayed.

I tried using <saved name="report1" /> and <saved source="reports" match="xyz"/> but no luck.

Looking for help on how can I display reports in a navigation menu as dropdown .

Re: How do I display Saved Reports in custom navigation menu

thambisetty — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:01:02 GMT

you can't add saved searches to custom navigation, but you can add dashboards. Dashboards are knowns as views in Splunk. add your saved searches to Dashboard before proceeding.

all your dashboards are saved as views in Splunk under settings -> user interface -> views.

First make sure your dashboards ( views ) are placed in your app before making changes to navigation menu is the place where you customize your navigation. Below is the default navigation of search & reporting

Settings -> user interface -> Navigation Menus -> default.

To create new menu with dropdown the syntax is as below:

for example, I want to create new menu (Other) with dropdown. I have a dashboard rowexpanstionjs in views of same app and I want to show this Dashboard under Other menu like Dashboards,Reports, Alerts in search & reporting then

Note: view name should match with view name under views in your app.

Re: How do I display Saved Reports in custom navigation menu

tkhatri — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:33:34 GMT

I am able to display saved reports in navigation menu using the below syntax. For example, for the report name "Test Report"
<saved name="Test Report" />

The mistake I was doing was not using the exact report name including space.