How to setup order of apps in the launcher page for all the users?

[saurabh009]

Hi,

I am trying to setup the order of apps in the launcher page but I am unable to do so.
I tried creating
SPLUNK_HOME(searchHead)/etc/system/local/user-prefs.conf
[general]
appOrder = app1, app2,app3,app4

Restarted the searchhead, but this didn't work.

[saurabh009 · Accepted solution]

I am able to implement and test same in un-clustered search head environment, below are steps for same:-
1) Login to search head UI and drag drop the apps in the order we want.
2) Copy the settings for appOrder from [general] stanza which got created under
Splunk_home/etc/users/MyLoginId/user-prefs/local/user-prefs.conf
3) Create below file with copied stanza with specified setting
Splunk_home/etc/system/local/user-prefs.conf
This file will override all the appOrders created for any user in any user-prefs.conf.
4) restart the splunk search head to see the changes.

For clustered search heads we need to do it manually on all search heads inside system/local folder because if we create an app and push it from DS then user setting will take precedence.

Thanks for all the inputs provided.

[whrg]

This is how I do it. I found this solution a while back when searching on Splunk Answers:

# SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/user-prefs/local/user-prefs.conf
[general_default]
appOrder = app1,app2,app2

This will set the app order for all users.

Please note that if a user explicitly set his own appOrder (via drag and drop) then I believe the user's settings will take precedence. So if the above solution does not immediately work for your user, create a new user and see if it works then.

Also remember to restart Splunk after making changes to configuration files.

On a side note: You can also specify which app is opened automatically when logging into Splunk by setting "default_namespace":

[general_default]
appOrder = app1,app2,app2
default_namespace = app1