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Why I am getting this error "The search you requested could not be viewed"?
i am receiving the splunk alerts from the mail after that when i click on the "view result" i am getting this error "The search you requested could not be viewed" but the alert owner (splunk admins) opened the same link its opened and result also visible from their end.
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I had the same issue. It was caused by a long saved search name. After cloning it too a shorter one it worked well. Thanks to the contributors of https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/When-I-clicked-quot-view-results-quot-on-alert-mail-quot-T...
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hi @rrovers What version of Splunk did you hit this bug with long search name and you couldn't view the search
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@burwell, this was around the time we migrated to splunk 9 but I think this was still in splunk version 8.x.x.
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You need to modify schedule search permission who is generating this result, if you don't have permission then you need to ask Splunk Admin.
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I have granted read/write permission to everyone, but others are still not able to open the result link.
only the admin can open it
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I suspect that you don't have permission to view that alert in splunk.
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can you please explaine me where do i change permissions to avoid this error
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