topic Re: Set a default index for all INPUTS within a specific app only in Dashboards & Visualizations

Set a default index for all INPUTS within a specific app only

eden881 — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:54:41 GMT

I have an app with a long list of inputs. I want to set them to go to a specific index (let's say index = my_index).
I can achieve this by placing index = my_index under the [default] stanza in the app.

However, will this affect other apps on the forwarder with their inputs set to default?
I deploy this app with a Deployment Server to several UFs.

Re: Set a default index for all INPUTS within a specific app only

richgalloway — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:54:56 GMT

Settings in .conf files are not app-specific, they are stanza-specific. Values in the [default] stanza apply to all inputs in all apps unless overwritten by the [default] stanza in another app that is processed first. btool can tell you what settings will apply.

Re: Set a default index for all INPUTS within a specific app only

eden881 — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:53:49 GMT

I think this is incorrect, as I tried it and found out that [default] only affects the inputs in the specific app...

Re: Set a default index for all INPUTS within a specific app only

eden881 — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:55:06 GMT

Eventually I tried it out myself, and found out that the [default] stanza only affects the inputs in it's specific app.

Re: Set a default index for all INPUTS within a specific app only

ccWildcard — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:50:38 GMT

I tried this on a server and found the opposite to be true. It was setting index across all stanzas at leas the ones set in etc\system\default\inputs.conf for the forwarder.