topic create dashoard with external data in Dashboards & Visualizations https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126492#M7457 <P>hello,<BR /> I have a csv file which contain a scan result from another program,I wan to creat a dashboard for this report on splunk ,could you please provide me hints how to do that.<BR /> thanks.</P> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:04:26 GMT hyahmadi 2014-07-01T15:04:26Z create dashoard with external data https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126492#M7457 <P>hello,<BR /> I have a csv file which contain a scan result from another program,I wan to creat a dashboard for this report on splunk ,could you please provide me hints how to do that.<BR /> thanks.</P> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:04:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126492#M7457 hyahmadi 2014-07-01T15:04:26Z Re: create dashoard with external data https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126493#M7458 <P>You can index the CSV file like any other, and use the data to power your search.</P> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:34:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126493#M7458 martin_mueller 2014-07-01T15:34:29Z Re: create dashoard with external data https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126494#M7459 <P>It's a good idea,but i'm a simple user i dont have permission to import data into splunk</P> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:03:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126494#M7459 hyahmadi 2014-07-01T16:03:38Z Re: create dashoard with external data https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126495#M7460 <P>Talk to your Splunk administrators then.</P> <P>An alternative way to get data for a search would be to upload the CSV as a lookup file, not sure if you have permissions for that though.</P> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:55:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/create-dashoard-with-external-data/m-p/126495#M7460 martin_mueller 2014-07-01T16:55:43Z