topic Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler in Getting Data In

Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

uagraw01 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:47:36 GMT

Hi Splunk Community,

I would appreciate your guidance regarding enabling Scheduled PDF Delivery in Splunk. Currently, the option does not appear for my Classic (Simple XML) dashboard, and I'm unsure how to enable or configure it correctly.

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

gcusello — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:51:56 GMT

Hi @uagraw01 ,

it's possible to schedule a pdf containing the form only if in the form there isn't any input.

Remove all your inputs and the pdf schedule option will be available.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

livehybrid — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:59:55 GMT

Hi @uagraw01

Does your dashboard include any inputs such as time pickers, dropdowns etc? If so this will prevent the PDF schedule option.

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Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

uagraw01 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:16:01 GMT

What do you mean by inputs ? Are asking for input tokens ?

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

livehybrid — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:34:52 GMT

Hi @uagraw01

inputs are the fields that you might have at the top of your dashboard, such as time picker, dropdowns, text input etc. Do you have any of these?

If so this is why you won’t have the option to schedule PDF delivery.

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

uagraw01 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:41:36 GMT

@gcusello @livehybrid I have removed all the inputs. But still option is not in a displaying mode.

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

gcusello — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:54:09 GMT

Hi @uagraw01 ,

could you share the code of your dashboard?

Ciaol.

Giuseppe

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

uagraw01 — Mon, 05 May 2025 03:51:04 GMT

Deleting code. Due internal policy.

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

gcusello — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:29:59 GMT

Hi @uagraw01 ,

you forgot to remove the time tokens:

<earliest>$TimeTokenMiddle.earliest$</earliest> <latest>$TimeTokenMiddle.latest$</latest>

in many rows of your dashboards, replacing them with a value for the time window.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

marycordova — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:22:59 GMT

oooooooooo I have something awesome for you...don't send a .pdf make an awesome PowerBI dashboard and embed it into SharePoint or PowerPoint and preserve you Splunk data's dynamicness 🤑

https://conf.splunk.com/files/2022/recordings/PLA1122B_1080.mp4

https://conf.splunk.com/files/2022/slides/PLA1122B.pdf

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

uagraw01 — Mon, 05 May 2025 03:50:21 GMT

@marycordova
Thank you for the valuable suggestion. The approach you've shared is indeed effective. However, in our current environment, implementing a user-based license model may not be feasible due to internal policy and stakeholder alignment constraints. We are exploring alternatives that align with our existing licensing agreements.

Re: Enabling of Splunk PDF scheduler

gcusello — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:15:40 GMT

Hi @uagraw01 ,

good for you, see next time!

Ciao and happy splunking

Giuseppe

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