Dashboards & Visualizations

Can I have a form search in a dashboard?

Simeon
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I have a dashboard and want to put a form search inside of it. Is it possible to embed my form search inside a dashboard (view)?

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Simeon
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Form searches cannot be embedded inside a simplified xml dashboard. However, you may be able to add them together in an advanced xml view.

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iKate
Builder

Here is a useful link in addition to Simeon's answer: AdvancedFormSearch

And as far as I understand, modules for dashboards and forms in advanced XML are the same, so any of these ones can be used: ModuleReference

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emma
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

All you have to do to add form searches to a simple XML dashboard is edit the xml and change the document tag from to

. Then you can use all the form elements described in the docs here:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Developer/Step1CreateAForm

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Simeon
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Form searches cannot be embedded inside a simplified xml dashboard. However, you may be able to add them together in an advanced xml view.

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