Character corruptions in Sideview Editor.

[sunrise]

Hi Splunkers,

I'm using "Sideview Editor" as an internal use to create dashboards,
because it is really convenient.
But now I have a problem that Splunk dashboard does not stop loading like blow,
when I edit the existed dashboards including Japanese.

After that, I confirmed that a character set of the view(XML) file was changed.

Can I configure the character set of Sideview Apps in any configuration file ?

Thank you.

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Splunk.ModuleLoader.$.klass.setLoadPhase common.min.js:12039
Splunk.ModuleLoader.$.klass.initialize common.min.js:12032
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[sideview · Accepted solution]

The problem has nothing to do with the Japanese characters you're inserting.

You said in your comment above that you've taken a non-Sideview view and added an HTML module. Well the HTML module is a Sideview module, and the one unbreakable rule about Sideview modules, is that if you use any Sideview modules in a view, you have to first insert the SideviewUtils module into the page somewhere. Typically you insert the invisible SideviewUtils module at the top out of the way.

So the problem isn't that the Editor itself broke, it's that by using the Editor to insert the HTML module without first inserting the SideviewUtils module, you broke the view and that's why the view isn't loading.

I get cases like this once in a while. I'll try to add some error detection to the Editor that prevents you from doing this.

[sunrise]

Thank you for helpful advice, sideview.
For the time being, I'll pay attention to that.

[sunrise]

1) Sideview-utils style advanced XML dashboards?
No, it was originally normal advanced XML dashboard which is generated from simple XML dashboard by ?showsource=1.
I wanna add some modules to those dashboard with Sideview Editor.
Adding some modules(eg. HTML module), the dashboard screen on right below in Sideview Editor does not stop loading.
And Japanese in the edited advanced XML file is corrupted.

2) There are some erros in chrome browser.
I added these error logs to Questions.

3) Chrome, Firefox.

[sideview]

Hmm... I don't know of any problems putting japanese or chinese characters into the view with the Sideview Editor. It has always worked in my tests and I've had no other bug reports. However, if the page hangs with "Loading..." like that, it means there is a javascript error on page load, which sounds like something else.

1) Are these previously existing dashboards Sideview-utils style advanced XML dashboards?

2) Can you look for any javascript errors in the Error Console of your browser? (dont send CSS errors or JS warns, only JS errors.)

3) What browser are you using?