topic Autopopulate username field in a form in Dashboards & Visualizations

Autopopulate username field in a form

logginz85 — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:58:35 GMT

Hi All,

I've got a form being built in Splunk Enterprise, its used as a lookup table so we can see if there is a known issue with a host etc...

I use the issue field to have a drop down option, and the host and IP are manually input.

What I'd like is for the "added by" field to be automatically populated with the signed in users ID/name/Username etc...This is for audit purposes mainly.

I've looked around and can't seem to find out how to do this.

Any/all help is greatly appreciated.

Re: Autopopulate username field in a form

ITWhisperer — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:27:35 GMT

Re: Autopopulate username field in a form

logginz85 — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:50:32 GMT

That's amazing, so simple. Now how can I set it so that field cant be changed by the user too?

Re: Autopopulate username field in a form

ITWhisperer — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:30:30 GMT

If you don't want the user to change it, why is it on the form in the first place?

You can add some style to prevent clicking on field, but if you want to disable it completely i.e. prevent tabbing to it as well, you will probably need to resort to javascript.

Re: Autopopulate username field in a form

logginz85 — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:52:19 GMT

that a fair point, I'd like the field to be used to capture whoever submitted the option in the form, but it doesnt need to be displayed I guess.

As such, if I just hid the field but retained all the features, it would capture the env:user information but then not leave it open to be edited

Re: Autopopulate username field in a form

logginz85 — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:14:25 GMT

I've got it. The idea was to have the username field auto-populated and to be read only so as to keep a record of which user submitted the item on the form.
I thought of having it as a box that would read the $env:user$ field, then pulling that to a table to be displayed underneath,

The issue was that if the username field pulls $env:user$, the user could simply edit that field to another users details.

Got round it by instead of pulling to the form box, then going to table, just pulling straight to table.

Thank you greatly for your help. That really helped.

Re: Autopopulate username field in a form

ITWhisperer — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:15:01 GMT

Yes, and this can be done with the depends attribute