Dashboards & Visualizations

Use Token in Dashboard Title

Haybuck15
Explorer

I have a dashboard that is only accessible via drilldown. When drilldown occurs, a hostname is passed to this dashboard, and all filters are set to invisible using the "depends" attribute.

I need to set the title of the dashboard (not a panel within the dashboard, but the dashboard itself) as the hostname that was passed to it. Here's the code I have so far, this is not currently working. Instead, Splunk is presenting the literal text "$server$". Can anyone please help?

<form>
  <label>Windows Monitor > $server$</label>
  <fieldset submitButton="false">
    <input type="text" token="server" depends="$thisTokenDoesNotExist$"></input>
  </fieldset>
  ...
</form>

So when the token passed is "form.server=MYSERVER", I want the dashboard label to display as:

Windows Monitor > MYSERVER

1 Solution

niketn
Legend

@Haybuck15 refer to one of my older answers with a workaround where you would need to

1) Hide the Dashboard Title
2) Move the input to a new panel
3) Create html panel with dashboard title and use token from input.

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/712013/how-do-you-display-the-date-in-a-dashboard-title.html

Please try out and confirm!

____________________________________________
| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

I have never been able to get this to work.

0 Karma

Haybuck15
Explorer

niketnilay actually managed to give me a totally usable workaround, I've already checked it off as the accepted answer. That might help you out too!

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niketn
Legend

@Haybuck15 refer to one of my older answers with a workaround where you would need to

1) Hide the Dashboard Title
2) Move the input to a new panel
3) Create html panel with dashboard title and use token from input.

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/712013/how-do-you-display-the-date-in-a-dashboard-title.html

Please try out and confirm!

____________________________________________
| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"

Haybuck15
Explorer

That worked perfectly first shot! I also never realized you could have part HTML and part Simple XML in a panel, for some reason I'd always thought you had to mark that the entire panel was HTML for it to read ANY HTML, no idea why I had that notion.

Thank you so much!

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