@fk319 try removing any Bootstrap divs surrounding the input -- that was what fixed my issue while using your first link. ... View more

That helped, thanks. I also had to remove the Bootstrap divs wrapping the submit button for this to work. ... View more

Try removing the Bootstrip div elements wrapping your submit button, replacing with a plain div , and sourcing your JavaScript from a .js file -- I was using <div class="control-group"> <div class="controls"> <input id="submit_button" type="button" value="Click" onclick="alert('Test')" /> </div> </div> and replaced it with dashboard.xml <input id="submit_button" type="button" value="Click"/> dashboard.js require([ "jquery", "splunkjs/mvc/simplexml/ready!"], function($){ $("#submit_button").on("click", function (){ alert("Test"); }); }); I'm not sure why SimpleXML chomps the onclick, but this workaround helped. Source: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/378289/calling-java-script-from-dashboard.html ... View more

As @jeremiahc4 and @srioux mentioned in the comments, fixing the app scoping addressed a similar problem I had where I was receiving an ERROR LookupOperator - The lookup table... error. Go to Settings > Lookups > Automatic Lookups and ensure that the Sharing for your automatic lookup is set to App, not Global. Prior to this I had noticed that the lookup didn't exist in my app's local.meta file either, and after I set the permissions from Global to App it appeared correctly. ... View more

virtualenv can be used to create a standalone Python installation with whatever modules are required. The scripted input could then use a wrapper script to activate the virtualenv, execute the Python script, and deactivate the virtualenv. This works okay if the native splunk module isn't required. script.py #!/usr/bin/env python import package package.do_stuff() script_wrapper.sh #!/bin/bash source /path/to/virtual/env/bin/activate python /path/to/script.py deactivate ... View more

Changing <dashboard style="my_style.css"> to <form style="my_style.css"> fixed my issue. Thanks as well. ... View more