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Cascading menus for nested navigation

strive
Influencer

Hi,

We use splunk 6.1 and would like to change the default nested navigation that splunk 6.x provides. The default nested navigation increases the number of user clicks to navigate to a specific menu item. We do not want the back button option to move across menu items.

We tried to have nested navigation as mega menu or as cascading menus. We could not find the attributes that helps us to change the nested navigation menu display.

Is there a way to bring cascading menus or mega menu for nested navigation in Splunk 6.x?

Thanks

Strive

1 Solution

lguinn2
Legend

Yes, but you can have only 2 levels of nesting. To change the menus, you need to edit the "nav" in default.xml for each app that you want to change.

Here is a link to the documentation for building your navigation.

Another approach is to download an app that you like and then look at its default.xml

I highly recommend the Splunk 6.x Dashboard Examples app. It has customized navigation, but it also shows examples of building a custom page with links. And of course the app is free.

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lguinn2
Legend

Yes, but you can have only 2 levels of nesting. To change the menus, you need to edit the "nav" in default.xml for each app that you want to change.

Here is a link to the documentation for building your navigation.

Another approach is to download an app that you like and then look at its default.xml

I highly recommend the Splunk 6.x Dashboard Examples app. It has customized navigation, but it also shows examples of building a custom page with links. And of course the app is free.

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