topic Re: Load PDF in a Dashboard in Dashboards & Visualizations

Has anyone used a pdf file to load/open as part of a dashboard?

arielpconsolaci — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:04:17 GMT

Hi Splunkers,

Has anyone used a pdf file to load/open as part of a dashboard?

(Not a link to the pdf file)

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards,

Ariel

Re: Load PDF in a Dashboard

ITWhisperer — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:41:40 GMT

Do you mean use an iframe to display a PDF document as part of your dashboard?

If so, this has to be enable through settings in the web.conf file.

[settings] dashboard_html_allow_embeddable_content = true dashboard_html_allow_iframes = true dashboard_html_allowed_domains = <list of allowed domains>

Re: Load PDF in a Dashboard

arielpconsolaci — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:53:21 GMT

HI @ITWhisperer

Yes. That is correct.

And iframe is the way I found to load a pdf file. However, it does not seem to work properly.

My files are located under the appserver/static directory of the application.

Thanks for the advise on web.conf.

I failed to mention that the platform is in Splunk Cloud. That conf seems to be intended on system level. Is that right?

Best Regards,

Ariel

Re: Load PDF in a Dashboard

ITWhisperer — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:59:48 GMT

Yes, web.conf is in etc/system/local and you may not be able to change it for cloud so easily if at all.

Re: Load PDF in a Dashboard

PickleRick — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:34:09 GMT

Also take into account that displaying PDFs is not a Splunk interface functionality but rather something that might be (or not, depending on the version) implemented on the browser side. And might probably be disabled in some browsers.