How to personalize a link label to a view into the navigation menu?

[RiccardoV]

Hi guys,
I've this issue.

I want to personalize the navigation menu in my App. I added all the dashboard manually into the xml, as indicated here:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.2/AdvancedDev/BuildNavigation#Build_the_navigation_X...

If I want to change a collection name, I can use the attr "label".

If I add a link to a dashboard, it will be displayed the value inside the tag "label" into the view's xml file. How can I personalize the label displayed into the menu withouth changing the xml of the view? I tried with the attr "label" but it doesn't work.

thanks in advance for your help!

[sideview · Accepted solution]

A strange thing about the default.xml file that powers the app navigation - you can actually put <a> tags right in there and they will get turned into menu items, alongside your <view> and <saved> nodes.

 `<a href="my_custom_view">This is a custom label for my_custom_view</a>`

This is a common trick in Splunk apps, both to customize the label in the navigation separately from the label in the view itself, and to do weird tricks like have the same view linked in the navigation from more than one place, with more than one label.

[mattymo]

2021 and this still bangs. 

Thx @sideview 

[jeffland]

Why hasn't this found its way into the documentation?

[SwatiApte]

Hi,

The tag works well, but the problem with it, is that we cannot make that particular Dashboard to be the default one. Splunk automatically searches for the first 'View' tag declared in the default.xml and makes it the default Dashboard. It does not take the link into account.