I found put that by adding refresh statements in the base search, I can control auto refresh in the panels where this base search is used. In case someone has similar question here is the sample. This also applies if you have search code within the panel. <search id="YYY"> <query>| savedsearch XXX </query> **<refresh>30s</refresh> <refreshType>delay</refreshType>** </search> ... View more

Ramdaspr, Thank You again for your input. This method works although I have to change it to searchString tag instead of combination of search and query tags. That may be because we are on splunk version 6.1.x. ... View more

I'm adding this in case any one else finds this as I did. If you want to use this to modify the time range of a chart in a dashboard with a shared time picker then you have to deal with $time.latest$ will spit out "now" if the latest time is now, or epoch time if it's not. to get round this you can add something like this eval earliest=if("$time.latest$" == "now","-2m",$time.latest$-120) so I was wanting to limit this particular chart to the latest 2mins of the selected time range. ... View more