Configuration page in custom app

[eylonronen]

Hi all

I want to create an app that contains several dashboards, but i want to allow the user to config some things (macros, lookups, etc...) easily like the configuration page in Splunk DB Connect, but i can't find how to update config files with js.

Also, i would like to know what is better:

html inside a view, or using a template

Thank you very much 🙂

[thellmann]

Hi @eylonronen - I think what you're looking for is a setup page. Check out this manual for more information on creating one for your app: https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/manageknowledge/setuppage

[eylonronen]

Thanks @thellmann  but I actually figured it out already...

But since you came by this post it would be great if you'd look on this medium story I wrote about my experience in this very topic with emphasis on the lack of documentation and good examples and hopefully try to make it better for future developers

My story:

https://medium.com/@eylon.ronen/the-ordeal-of-using-js-inside-splunk-app-6fb3a441151d

Thank you very much

[mleati]

Eylon,

I came across your post on Medium before I found this one. I was looking for information about integrating React and Splunk (using the new Dashboard Framework). Being a newcomer to both React and Splunk, this task is also impossible and it is definitely taking me way more than a week to come up with a simple dashboard. I followed the examples that I was able to find elsewhere but there is almost nothing out there. Splunk did provide some examples at .conf19 but not much after that. Those examples came with @splunk/dashboard-core 8.x.x. The current version of this component is 20.1.0. Obviously it was changed a lot. I am running into some issues with React and I suspect that it may have something to do with incompatibility between the versions of React and @splunk/dashboard-* stuff in my build. But I can find any information about the right configuration (the package.json from the examples might work but it's an extremely outdated version). Did you use @splunk/dashboard-* modules? Could you share a little bit more about your experience?

[thellmann]

Thanks for the feedback - this is definitely an area where we are working on improving the developer experience. I'll forward your article to the relevant product managers.