topic How to send job to background in simpleXML? in Dashboards & Visualizations

How to send job to background in simpleXML?

sistemistiposta — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:09:01 GMT

Hello,

if I want to send a job in background from a dashboard I have to Open in Search and after that I can perform the choice.

I wonder if there is some trick to directly send a dashboard job to background.

Do you have any hints?

Thank you and happy splunking

Marco

Re: How to send job to background in simpleXML

ITWhisperer — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:38:51 GMT

What are you trying to achieve? If it is to hide a panel / row until the results are available, then you can use tokens set or unset by the <done> / <processing> clauses of the query and make the panel / row depend or reject said tokens.

Re: How to send job to background in simpleXML

sistemistiposta — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:28:52 GMT

Hello,

I try to explain. Some searches can be slow to end. Let suppose I write a dashboard where I allow an input time interval of one year for a search.

So I would like that a user that enter a dashboard and fill a form could also choose to perform the search in background, receiving through email a message when the search ends. Obviously in this way the user will see the result in the provided link, he will not see the result in the dashboard.

I know that in this way there is the risk that users could run too many search in background, but this is another problem.

Thank you very much

Re: How to send job to background in simpleXML

nagendra1111 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:02:10 GMT

did you able to find solution for this.

Re: How to send job to background in simpleXML?

thahir — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:29:49 GMT

Hi @nagendra1111 ,

Splunk does not currently support sending dashboard panel searches directly to background jobs from the UI.

Re: How to send job to background in simpleXML

PickleRick — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:56:12 GMT

There is no such functionality in SimpleXML. And it's understandable to some extent - dashboards are meant for interactive work. You probably could create something like that with custom JS but it won't be easy.

Re: How to send job to background in simpleXML?

nagendra1111 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:18:33 GMT

@thahir @PickleRick

I am testing something with

/api/search/jobs/$SID$/control?action=save
it is working on and off , sometime it work and sometime not.