https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Dashboard-Question/m-p/49098#M11761 <P>Sure, you could create a form with a text field, this value could be tokenised and passed into another search further down the page that uses outputlookup or one of the other output commands to save it to a file.</P> <P>Otherwise you could create your own search command that handles all this for you, here are some links for reading;</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/SearchReference/outputlookup">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/SearchReference/outputlookup</A><BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Search/Writeasearchcommand">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Search/Writeasearchcommand</A><BR /> <A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/64805/splunk-dashboard-examples">http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/64805/splunk-dashboard-examples</A></P> <P>Finally, if you were really brave you could write your own module that handles this <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span><BR /> dev.splunk.com</P> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:06:13 GMT Drainy 2012-11-30T10:06:13Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Dashboard-Question/m-p/49096#M11759 <P>I have a request to create a dashboard that among other things has a panel that text can be input into and written to a file. I have not come across anything in the docs that covers this and I am not sure it is even possible. Any suggestions?</P> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:10:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Dashboard-Question/m-p/49096#M11759 menkurau 2012-11-29T16:10:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Dashboard-Question/m-p/49097#M11760 <P>Written to a file ?<BR /> Could you please explain in other words ?</P> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:56:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Dashboard-Question/m-p/49097#M11760 aneeshkjm123 2012-11-30T09:56:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Dashboard-Question/m-p/49098#M11761 <P>Sure, you could create a form with a text field, this value could be tokenised and passed into another search further down the page that uses outputlookup or one of the other output commands to save it to a file.</P> <P>Otherwise you could create your own search command that handles all this for you, here are some links for reading;</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/SearchReference/outputlookup">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/SearchReference/outputlookup</A><BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Search/Writeasearchcommand">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Search/Writeasearchcommand</A><BR /> <A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/64805/splunk-dashboard-examples">http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/64805/splunk-dashboard-examples</A></P> <P>Finally, if you were really brave you could write your own module that handles this <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span><BR /> dev.splunk.com</P> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:06:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Dashboard-Question/m-p/49098#M11761 Drainy 2012-11-30T10:06:13Z