Why won’t my addition to the navigation menu show up?

[Gregski11]

so I am trying to do something super simple having watched a basic YouTube video on how to do it, I just want to add a new menu item to the top navigation bar, something like "Test"

In the Web UI I go to Settings \ User interface \ Navigation menus and then click on the default Nav name in the list of my custom app for example

<nav search_view="search">
<view name="ess_home" default="true" />
<view name="ess_security_posture" />
<view name="incident_review" />
<view name="ess_investigation_list" />
<view name="my_new_test_item" />
</nav>

I save it and get the Successfully updated "default" in SplunkEnterpriseSecuritySuite. confirmation but nothing happens, I never see my new item up top 

[richgalloway]

Sometimes, there's an ES way to do a thing and a non-ES way to do it.  Always use the ES way when changing something in ES.  In this case, go to Settings->General->Navigation.

[Gregski11]

thanks Rich that sort of worked, it gave me that graphical layout type of screen, and I could add something from their canned pull down list and that item shows up, but my test one although I can see it on that layout page does not show up in the menu nav

I guess I should not have used ES as an example cause I am actually trying to move a custom item from the ES nav that the previous Splunk Admin added there incorrectly and add it to our home grown custom app nav instead, so why isn't my basic custom app not showing my new item?

[gcusello]

Hi @Gregski11,

I suppose that the "my_new_test_item" dashboard exists and it has exactly this name.

So probably the problem is the location of this dashboard in the apps that are in the ES,

try to put the absolute path in the menu line

/app/<your_app>/<your_dashboard>

if it doesn't run use this:

<a href="/app/<your_app>/<your_dashboard>">your_app</a>

Ciao.

Giuseppe

[Gregski11]

ah thanks Giuseppe so I guess you can't just create a phantom menu item with nothing behind it like I attempted, it has to be a legit dashboard

question for you how can I reveal the source code behind the ES navigation page in the Web UI, all it offers me is the graphical slide this box here slide this box there screen