How to use third party form elements in Splunk?

[jamesvz84]

Hello,

Is there any way in Splunk to use third party form elements such as the multi-select dropdown from this website? : http://www.jqueryrain.com/?iF5ue7jr

Is there a guide for doing such a thing? I'd like to create my own JS class that will handle rendering the element, but I do not know how it would handle performing the search, then getting the results into the rendered element.

Are there any examples of this in the docs or in a github repository?

[tom_frotscher]

Hi jamesvz84!

I am afraight there is no "simple" solution to this. But you can work something out with the splunk web framework.

In the following example, a custom view is created. With the so called search manager, a search is created and the results of the search are used in a third-party visualization.
Link: Custom View Tutorial
There is also a ton of more tutorials and documentation available.

This is somehow similar to your use case. Were you would also create a search, formatting the search results and passing it to your own custom component.