topic Re: Dynamic Text on Dashboard description Area. in Dashboards & Visualizations

Dynamic Text on Dashboard description Area.

nilanjankc — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:48:53 GMT

Is it possible to have some dynamic text in Dashboard description area, like current system time?
I am attaching the screen shot.
I am very new to Splunk ,it is my learning journey. Thank you for your help.

Re: Dynamic Text on Dashboard description Area.

niketn — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:22:30 GMT

@nilanjankc try the following Run anywhere example.
1) You can use hideTitle="true" to hide the Splunk dashboard title.
2) Then use <html> panel to build your own dashboard header.
3) In another row add the inputs.
4) Create an independent search to find the current time and set it to token to be used to display the current time in the html panel.

PS: You can type /edit or /editxml after the dashboard title in the URL to bring up Dashboard UI Edit or Dashboard Edit XML respectively since the Edit button will also not show.

<form hideTitle="true">
  <label>Test</label>
  <description>Refresh Interval 15 Minutes</description>
  <search>
    <query>| makeresults
    | eval CurrentTime=strftime(_time,"%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S %p")
    </query>
    <earliest>-1s</earliest>
    <latest>now</latest>
    <progress>
      <set token="tokCurrentTime">$result.CurrentTime$</set>
    </progress>
  </search>
  <fieldset submitButton="false"></fieldset>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <html>
        <div>
          <h1>Test</h1>
          <p class="dashboard-header-description">Refresh Interval 15 Minutes - $tokCurrentTime$</p>
        </div>
      </html>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <input type="time" token="field1">
        <label></label>
        <default>
          <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
        </default>
      </input>
      <input type="dropdown" token="field2">
        <label>Business</label>
      </input>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

Re: Dynamic Text on Dashboard description Area.

john_glasscock — Wed, 01 May 2019 12:05:53 GMT

@niketnilay Thank you for the answer above. I am in a similar situation, and can't figure out how to use your answer to display last months name in the description. I.E. I run a report on may 1 for totals for April. I want to display April, 2019 in the description. I can't figure out how to get the previous months value.

Thanks,
John

Re: Dynamic Text on Dashboard description Area.

niketn — Wed, 01 May 2019 14:21:13 GMT

Hi @john.glasscock I am glad you found the answer useful. Do up-vote the answer/comment if it helped 🙂

As per you issue description you need to display Month name using token through an independent search. Please try out the following and use tokPreviousMonth for your dynamic description.

   <search>
     <query>| makeresults
| eval PreviousMonth=strftime(relative_time(_time,"-1mon@mon"),"%B")
     </query>
     <earliest>-1s</earliest>
     <latest>now</latest>
     <progress>
       <set token="tokPreviousMonth">$result.PreviousMonth$</set>
     </progress>
   </search>