Global Time Picker

[Marco]

Hello Splunkers,

I'm developing a Splunk app with about 20 dashboards (20 XML files). Each dashboard has a time picker. The thing I have noticed is that when a user clicks on a new dashboard, the time picker resets. My question is: does Splunk have some sort of Global time picker, so that when a user selects a time value on the time picker it will follow them across multiple dashboards.

Attached below is a brief design of my application and what I am trying to do.

 Any suggestions is much appreciated.

Thank you,

Marco

[bowesmana · Accepted solution]

@Marco 

If you are travelling between dashboards via drilldown clicks on dashboards, then you can pass the current time picker values in the URL parameters, e.g. add 

form.time_range.earliest=$time_range.earliest$&form.time_range.latest=$time_range.latest$

to your drilldown links, along with any other url params you are passing. The above assumes your token for the time picker is called time_range.

[Marco]

Thank you, @bowesmana . it took me a while to see what you meant but I figured it out .  For anybody that might  be curious on how I implemented the code - check below.

dashboard1 is the name of the dashboard I want to go to and the string following that is the time picker value.

<link>dashboard1?form.Time_Picker.earliest=$Time_Picker.earliest$&amp;form.Time_Picker.latest=$Time_Picker.latest$</link>