topic Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open in Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

htkwan — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 06:02:45 GMT

Hello,
Would like to set a token when the user opens a dashboard. Pls. advise. Thanks.

Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

martin_mueller — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 08:08:21 GMT

If that's a token the user can modify, set the default value for the input the user uses to modify the token.
If that's a token the user can't modify, replace the uses of the token with the value you'd like the token to have.

If those two approaches don't do what you need, please describe what you need rather than what non-working solution you have in mind.

Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

htkwan — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 03:12:48 GMT

Hello Martin,
One can declare a variable to have a certain value in typical program. Want to do so, in the dashboard, too. Thanks

Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

martin_mueller — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:14:49 GMT

If that's a constant, consider declaring a macro and use that. Bonus: Declare once, use in all dashboards.

You mentioned "program", if you've descended into the Javascript level below SimpleXML dashboards, you can use the generated setToken() function at any time you please.

Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

joao_amorim — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:33:12 GMT

Inside time_range input for example you can put:

<change>
    <set token="yourtoken">value</set>
</change>

It will set the token value as soon as you open the dashboard.

Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

htkwan — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:50:53 GMT

Hello,
Can one set a token when the dashboard is opened? I don't have any inputs. Thanks.

Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

ArthurGautesen — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:40:52 GMT

I usually use a globally accessible .csv file with a single entry value in it (because it is faster getting to finalized), but this always works in a pinch. Just toss this after your description and before everything else.

<search id="onDashboardOpen">
<query>index=* | head 1</query>
<earliest>-1m</earliest>
<latest>now</latest>
<finalized>
MyValue
</finalized>
</search>

Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

martin_mueller — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 20:30:01 GMT

Instead of either, you could use | makeresults as a dummy query, should be much faster.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.0/SearchReference/makeresults

Re: Dashboard: Set Token When Dashboard is Open

dbcase — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:21:09 GMT

put this right below the dashboard statement in Simple XML

<init>
    <set token="app_name">my_app_name</set>
  </init>