topic Re: Add legends to a dashboard visualisations in Dashboards & Visualizations

How to Add legends to a dashboard visualisations?

POR160893 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:01:18 GMT

Hi,

I have a dashboard as follows:

And the stakeholder wants a legend as follows added to the dashboard:

How can this be achieved?
Thanks,

Re: Add legends to a dashboard visualisations

richgalloway — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:33:51 GMT

Normally, we'd just edit the dashboard and turn on legends in the desired panels. This app, however, has disabled the Edit button. All is not lost, however. If you have access to the file system, you can edit the Simple XML directly.

Begin by copying the file from $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/<this app>/default/data/ui/views to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/<this app>/local/data/ui/views.

Edit the copy and look for <option name="charting.legend.placement">none</option> and replace it with <option name="charting.legend.placement">right</option>

NOTE: Once this change is made, it will override the dashboard in the default directory. That means any updates in future versions of this app will not be seen by users until you repeat this process or delete the local copy of the dashboard.

Re: Add legends to a dashboard visualisations

POR160893 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:21:47 GMT

Hi,

I do not have permissions to re-enable the edit mode of this app or access to the file system.

Re: Add legends to a dashboard visualisations

richgalloway — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:31:46 GMT

You may want to contact your Splunk admin for assistance.

Another option is to clone the dashboard. Once you're the owner you should have the ability to make changes. Cloning may require permissions you don't have, however, so admin help may be needed.

Re: Add legends to a dashboard visualisations

POR160893 — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:17:01 GMT

Hey,

I have added the legend option onto one of my pie charts now:

But I see no legend still:

Why would this be?

Thanks,
Patrick

Re: Add legends to a dashboard visualisations

richgalloway — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:48:31 GMT

My apologies. Pie charts don't support the charting.legend.placement setting. I believe users have to hover over a segment to see what it represents.