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is it possible to change the name of the PDF reports from PDF Server?

piebob
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

right now Splunk sends pdf reports named splunk-report.pdf. we'd like to change them so they include the date and possibly the topic of the report. is this possible? how?

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gareth
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Unfortunately it's not possible in the current version of Splunk without modifying code

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

In splunk 4.3.1, the sendemail.py script updates the filename with the timestamp.
see line 528
filename = '%s-%s.pdf' % (pdfviewfn[:50], datestamp)

jliu
Explorer

It's hard-coded. I changed the report-name in sendemail.py file.

jliu
Explorer

I checked report.py file, but I couldn't find a way to change the name.
Is it hard-coded?

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fatdragon
Engager

splunk code ? can we modify following file and get it do change report-name to include date/report title to what's generated?

/opt/splunk/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/report.py

gareth
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Unfortunately it's not possible in the current version of Splunk without modifying code

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