Solved: Re: Splunk dashboard: XML dashboard shows up as "l...

kannu · ‎01-02-2018

Hello splunkers,

I have came across a different splunk behavior :
when i am creating the dashboard i have written simple xml like below:

<dashboard>
  <label>manish_testing2</label>

  <row>
    <panel>
      <html>
        <head>
          </head>
        <body>
          <p>hello manish</p>

        </body>
             </html>

    </panel>    
    </row>
</dashboard>

After saving the dashboard, i reopend dashboard i am getting something else .

Please help !

Elsurion · ‎01-03-2018

Hmmm, looks like you try to readd a head tag, which will be filled by splunk with that:

<label>manish_testing2<\/label>\n        <row>\n          <panel>\n            <html>\n              <head>
        <meta name="referrer" content="never" />
        <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" />

          <script>
                window._splunk_metrics_events = {
                   push : function() {},
                   active: false,
                   }
          </script>
    \n                <\/head>\n              <body>\n

Unless you have to rewrite head and body think it over again and just remove them.
It will work that way as well:

<html>
<p>hello manish</p>
</html>

You don't have to create a whole html page, the needed tags are enough, splunk will do the rest for you.
Also in the simple_xml_examples is a html example included.
HTML Doc

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Elsurion · ‎01-03-2018

Hmmm, looks like you try to readd a head tag, which will be filled by splunk with that:

<label>manish_testing2<\/label>\n        <row>\n          <panel>\n            <html>\n              <head>
        <meta name="referrer" content="never" />
        <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" />

          <script>
                window._splunk_metrics_events = {
                   push : function() {},
                   active: false,
                   }
          </script>
    \n                <\/head>\n              <body>\n

Unless you have to rewrite head and body think it over again and just remove them.
It will work that way as well:

<html>
<p>hello manish</p>
</html>

You don't have to create a whole html page, the needed tags are enough, splunk will do the rest for you.
Also in the simple_xml_examples is a html example included.
HTML Doc

mayurr98 · ‎01-03-2018

hey @kannu

It might be Splunk problem cause I tried the code its working fine at my end
go to dashboard >>createnewdashboard and in the source code copy below code and try again!

 <dashboard>
       <label>manish_testing2</label>
       <row>
         <panel>
           <html>
             <head>
               </head>
             <body>
               <p>hello manish</p>
             </body>
                  </html>
         </panel>    
         </row>
     </dashboard>

try doing http://splunksh/en-US/debug/refresh
and restarting splunk

let me know if this helps you!

kannu · ‎01-04-2018

@mayurr98

Thank for your reply ,

Actually issue will be seen when save the dashboard close your splunk browser window re open the splunk got to dashboard click the dashboard again which you have saved . You will be able to see that error
and issue is resolved actually as mentioned by @Elsurion .

naidusadanala · ‎01-02-2018

may be There are invisible escape characters in the code .

remove the spaces between the lines and create a new dashboard with new name

kannu · ‎01-03-2018

Hi @naidusadanala,
thank you for the quick reply.

I have tried the same after removing the spaces but still getting the same error .

Splunk dashboard: XML dashboard shows up as "loading" with text at bottom of screen

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