topic Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI in Dashboards & Visualizations

Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

DanMurad — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:00:13 GMT

It seems I can't edit dashboard and form XML's using my own editor. Upon saving, Splunk does not refresh (probably because it reads from DB cache instead of file?), how can I force it to read the file every time it changes because I'd like to use my own IDE instead of the splunk xml editor.

Thanks,

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

DanMurad — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:03:18 GMT

It would have been tolerable if Save button didn't exit everytime making you find and click the view name again to edit it.

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

Ayn — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:32:45 GMT

All views in the app are refreshed when you access the app's start URL ( .../apps/yourapp ). You can just click the app logo at the top left corner in your app in splunkweb to achieve the same thing.

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

DanMurad — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:36:26 GMT

This is incorrect. It does not refresh. I hope you understand when I say edit the xml I mean editing the file /opt/splunk/etc/apps//local/data/ui/views/.xml

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

nfilippi_splunk — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:38:34 GMT

You can reload these from disk using the following endpoint(s).

To reload all objects:
http://:/debug/refresh

To reload views only:
http://:/debug/refresh?entity=%2Fdata%2Fui%2Fnav&entity=%2Fdata%2Fui%2Fviews

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

Ayn — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:41:54 GMT

That is exactly what I mean. The methods I describe work perfectly for refreshing on the Dplunk instances I've used.

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

devicenul1 — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:28:25 GMT

I'm having this exact same problem with Version 6.1.1 ... Any other ideas here, I've tried everything listed but it will not refresh custom dashboards. Doing a ?showsource=1 shows the out of date code.

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

nfilippi_splunk — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:46:55 GMT

Did you try the reload endpoint as listed below? After doing this reload, we need to refresh the dashboard page.

http://:/debug/refresh

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

devicenul1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:19:59 GMT

Yes, I tried both the reload all objects and just views ... the views one doesn't work, the all objects one will sometimes work.

Re: Edit Form/Dashboard XML manually , Splunk does not refresh unless XML edited through GUI

stevewillson — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 08:24:39 GMT

Restarting with

http://debug/refresh

worked when editing files outside of Splunk Enterprise 8.0.6.

If I edit the file directly in (\default\data\ui\views\) and then click on the App in the upper left corner of the screen under 'Apps', the display content for the modified file is not updated.

Confirming what @DanMurad posted.