topic Re: Chart state-preservation in Dashboards & Visualizations

Chart state-preservation

SalvadorFlores — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:03:22 GMT

Hello,

I'm using Splunk 4.3.4 and I've been searching for some way to turn off the state-preservation mentioned in the link below:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/55770/bar-chart-minimum-height

The idea is to set the chart's height as static, so even after users rezise it next time they access the dashboard it will go back to the same height for charts.

Thank you!

Re: Chart state-preservation

sideview — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:51:55 GMT

It's basically controlled by the isSticky attribute on the view tag.

However, and this is the unfortunate part, setting isSticky to False will just tell splunk that you no longer wish to keep track of changes made by each user. It won't actually discard the last-previously-stuck values for each user. So if the last edit a given user made before you set isSticky to false was to make the chart 5px high, for them the chart will then remain 5px high for eternity.

So, all these 'sticky' settings are remembered separately for each of your users, and each will have little viewstate stanzas scattered in /etc/users/<username>/viewstates.conf

Unfortunately short of changing the name of the view and thus the URL, you'll have to go find all the old viewstates and delete them.

Re: Chart state-preservation

SalvadorFlores — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:00:42 GMT

Thank you for the quick reply.

I've been looking at the advanced XML and some other posts but I can't seem to find isSticky or isPersistable in the view tag nor the whole XML. My view tag only has

autoCancelInterval="90" isVisible="true" objectMode="SimpleDashboard" onunloadCancelJobs="true" refresh="-1" template="dashboard.html"

Shall I just add the isSticky there?
I don't have access to the viewstates.conf but is useful info though.

Thank you.

Re: Chart state-preservation

sideview — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:55:02 GMT

That's right. I think "True" is the default so if you don't have an isSticky attribute in the view tag than it'll be the same as having isSticky="True". Put an isSticky="False" and Splunk will stop remembering changes going forward. But remember that means that each user will be stuck with whatever their last-remembered value was.

Re: Chart state-preservation

SalvadorFlores — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:11:31 GMT

This solved the problem, thank you very much!