topic Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus in Dashboards & Visualizations

Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

PBerry7538 — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:58:58 GMT

Hi I am fairly new to Splunk and for my project I have a collection of 6 dashboards. I am trying to find out if there is an attribute I can set or check that tells me that the dashboard has been clicked on. The reason being if the dashboard has been selected and is being displayed I want that one and only that one to auto refresh. And if I select another dashboard the newly selected one goes auto refresh and the previous one doesn't. I know how to set the auto-refresh attribute,

I hope that makes sense.

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

diogofgm — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:04:00 GMT

What do you mean with "dashboard has focus"?

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

PBerry7538 — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:08:23 GMT

So i have six individual dashboards that comprise my App. Each one represents an area of the business. So if i click on one of the dashboards that dashboard displays on the screen. that is what i meant by focus ..

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

kamlesh_vaghela — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:10:42 GMT

@PBerry7538
you can identify a particular dashboard when dashboard loads by using checking dashboard title OR dashboard page.

It would be good if your details are more by providing the exact use case,

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

kamlesh_vaghela — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:13:43 GMT

@PBerry7538
You can use javascript, dashboard.js, and check dashboard title OR dashboard page for your purpose.

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

diogofgm — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:17:25 GMT

Only the dashboard on the screen will use the auto-refresh. if the dashboard its not open in the browser it won't refresh. Does this makes sense?

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

PBerry7538 — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:21:50 GMT

@kamlesh_vaghela
Would you be able to give me an example of how to check the dashboard title or dashboard page has loaded? Or where they are found in the splunk docs ?

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

kamlesh_vaghela — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:22:34 GMT

The dashboard will only refresh if it is opened in the browser.

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

kamlesh_vaghela — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:24:26 GMT

Let me clear my self.
You have 6 dashboards and you want to auto-refresh it. RIght? In Splunk, you can refresh the whole dashboard OR particular panel. What you want ot do?

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

kamlesh_vaghela — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 05:56:16 GMT

@PBerry7538

Below is the sample javascript you can use for getting dashboard title or dashboard page.

require(["jquery", "splunkjs/mvc", "splunkjs/mvc/simplexml/ready!"], function($, mvc) {

    //GET TITLE
    console.log($(".dashboard-header-title").text());

    // SET TITLE
    $(".dashboard-header-title").text("ANY TITLE");

    // GET Page name
    var path = window.location.pathname;
    var page = path.split("/").pop();
    console.log( page );



});

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

PBerry7538 — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:22:29 GMT

@kamlesh_vaghela Thanks very much indeed 😄

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

kamlesh_vaghela — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:41:20 GMT

@PBerry7538

If this answer helps you with your question then please accept to close this question. And if let us know if you require further assistance.

Happy Splunking

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

niketn — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:33:30 GMT

@kamlesh_vaghela this can done in SimpleXML also using global environment token for current page. $env:page$

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.5/Viz/tokens#Use_global_tokens_to_access_environment_information

Re: Is there an attribute that that identifies if the dashboard has focus

kamlesh_vaghela — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:39:11 GMT

@niketnilay Agree. We can use $env:page$ also.

@PBerry7538 Check above provided link for global tokens to access environment information.