topic Re: Global Time Picker in Dashboards & Visualizations

Global Time Picker

Marco — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:28:36 GMT

Hello Splunkers,

I'm developing a Splunk app with about 20 dashboards (20 XML files). Each dashboard has a time picker. The thing I have noticed is that when a user clicks on a new dashboard, the time picker resets. My question is: does Splunk have some sort of Global time picker, so that when a user selects a time value on the time picker it will follow them across multiple dashboards.

Attached below is a brief design of my application and what I am trying to do.

Any suggestions is much appreciated.

Thank you,

Marco

Re: Global Time Picker

bowesmana — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:12:57 GMT

@Marco

If you are travelling between dashboards via drilldown clicks on dashboards, then you can pass the current time picker values in the URL parameters, e.g. add

form.time_range.earliest=$time_range.earliest$&form.time_range.latest=$time_range.latest$

to your drilldown links, along with any other url params you are passing. The above assumes your token for the time picker is called time_range.

Re: Global Time Picker

Marco — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:02:13 GMT

Thank you, @bowesmana . it took me a while to see what you meant but I figured it out . For anybody that might be curious on how I implemented the code - check below.

dashboard1 is the name of the dashboard I want to go to and the string following that is the time picker value.