Menu bar with conditional items depending on installed apps

[bowesmana]

I want a master app to have menus that appear when other apps are installed.

Now Splunk will not display a menu item if its dashboard does not exist, e.g.

<view name="my_dashboard"/>

means that for the app "my_app", the file /app/my_app/(default|local)/data/ui/views/my_dashboard.xml must exist, otherwise that dashboard will not show in the menu.

What I want is to be able to do something like

<view name="my_second_app:my_second_dashboard"/>

(like you can reference stylesheets and script files from another app within a dashboard of a different app)

so that if the app "my_second_app" is installed, it will show that item on the menu, but if not, it wont. The only way I can seem to get dashboards from other apps is with the

<a href="href">

syntax, which of course will not hide non installed items.

[niketn]

@bowesmana instead of using navigation default.xml, can you create a prebuilt panel with menu options built using Simple XML and REST API so that you can control which navigation option to show and which one to hide? Then include prebuilt panel in all your dashboards?

[bowesmana]

Thanks @niketn - that's an idea - I'll look into that. 

[niketn]

@bowesmana it would be a combination of following 2 answers of mine

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/How-to-pass-a-dashboard-as-value-in-dropdo...

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Report-of-Dashboard/td-p/492121