App navigation bar and dashboard permissions

[goncalo]

Hello,

I created a Splunk app with 4 dashboards and i configured the app navigation bar to only show those 4 dashboards.

<nav>
  <view name="dashboard_1"/>
  <view name="dashboard_2"/>
  <view name="dashboard_3"/>
  <view name="dashboard_4"/>
</nav>

However, the user permissions for each one of them are different depending on the user's role. There are users that can only see DASHBOARD_1, others can only see DASHBOARD_2, some can see both DASHBOARD_2 and DASHBOARD_3, among a series of other combinations...

My problem is with the users that can only view dashboards 2, 3 and 4, because even though they explicitly DO NOT have permissions to view DASHBOARD_1, when they enter the App, Splunk always tries to open that one. As you can imagine the result is an error page with the horse and the "Oops.". 

I understand that because it is the first one in the navigation bar, Splunk assumes it's the homepage of that app. But I also expected Splunk to take the user permissions into consideration. Meaning that if a certain user only has permissions to see dashboards 3 and 4, the App navigation bar should only show those 2 options and when they open the App, it should open on DASHBOARD_3.

This was working great a few months back and at some point it just stopped - I can't be precise on when exactly that happened .

I managed to find a workaround by replacing all the <view> entries shown above with: 

<nav>
  <view source="all" match="dashboard_1"/>
  <view source="all" match="dashboard_2"/>
  <view source="all" match="dashboard_3"/>
  <view source="all" match="dashboard_4"/>
</nav>

 However, a few days ago Splunk was updated from version 9.0.2 to 9.2.1 and the workaround stopped working as well.

I'm sure I'm missing something.

What can I do so that Splunk obeys the dashboards user permissions in this situation and doesn't redirect the user to a dashboard they don't even have permission to view?

Thank you.

[gcusello]

Hi @goncalo ,

surely the issue is that the default home page is fixed and it isn't possible to define an home page based on the user or the role, the only way is to create another home page common to all the roles.

In this way the DASHBOARD1 will be not visible for the not enabled users and you'll not have the error page.

In all my apps, I always insert a general Home Page to use as a menu and an introduction to the app.

Ciao.

Giuseppe