https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Add-static-HTML-panel-to-simple-HTML-dashboard-and-reference/m-p/325582#M21038 <P>I'm glad you asked that question @tmuth ! I bet you searched for an answer and didn't find exactly what you were looking for. Note that with splunk 6.5+ we can use global tokens to access environment information - <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Viz/tokens#Use_global_tokens_to_access_environment_information" target="_blank">link</A></P> <OL> <LI>Put static content in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/your_app/appserver/static . You can also create subdirectories there. In this case I put my file in ./doc/USERGUIDE-2015.pdf , so the full path for my "abc" app is $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/abc/appserver/static/doc/USERGUIDE-2015.pdf</LI> <LI>I can now reference this file using the following path in a Simple XML dashboard because of the global tokens: <STRONG>/static/app/$env:app$/doc/USERGUIDE-2015.pdf</STRONG></LI> <LI>Below is the full code for my Simple XML dashboard:</LI> </OL> <PRE> doc <PANEL> <H3>Documentation for this project</H3> <UL> <LI>2015 User Guide (local copy) - <A href="https://community.splunk.com/static/app/$env:app$/doc/USERGUIDE-2015.pdf" target="_none">[here]</A></LI> </UL> </PANEL> </PRE> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:40:31 GMT tmuth_splunk 2020-09-29T15:40:31Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Add-static-HTML-panel-to-simple-HTML-dashboard-and-reference/m-p/325581#M21037 <P>How do I add a static HTML panel to a simple HTML dashboard and reference local static content, such as images or PDFs? I'm on splunk 6.5+ and I'd also like to use a dynamic variable for the app name in the URL references. </P> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:54:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Add-static-HTML-panel-to-simple-HTML-dashboard-and-reference/m-p/325581#M21037 tmuth_splunk 2017-09-07T13:54:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Add-static-HTML-panel-to-simple-HTML-dashboard-and-reference/m-p/325582#M21038 <P>I'm glad you asked that question @tmuth ! I bet you searched for an answer and didn't find exactly what you were looking for. Note that with splunk 6.5+ we can use global tokens to access environment information - <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Viz/tokens#Use_global_tokens_to_access_environment_information" target="_blank">link</A></P> <OL> <LI>Put static content in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/your_app/appserver/static . You can also create subdirectories there. In this case I put my file in ./doc/USERGUIDE-2015.pdf , so the full path for my "abc" app is $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/abc/appserver/static/doc/USERGUIDE-2015.pdf</LI> <LI>I can now reference this file using the following path in a Simple XML dashboard because of the global tokens: <STRONG>/static/app/$env:app$/doc/USERGUIDE-2015.pdf</STRONG></LI> <LI>Below is the full code for my Simple XML dashboard:</LI> </OL> <PRE> doc <PANEL> <H3>Documentation for this project</H3> <UL> <LI>2015 User Guide (local copy) - <A href="https://community.splunk.com/static/app/$env:app$/doc/USERGUIDE-2015.pdf" target="_none">[here]</A></LI> </UL> </PANEL> </PRE> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:40:31 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Add-static-HTML-panel-to-simple-HTML-dashboard-and-reference/m-p/325582#M21038 tmuth_splunk 2020-09-29T15:40:31Z