The navigation menu at the top would be so much better if it could transmit the context (index and host) for the new page to have its filters pre-populated. Is this possible or is the navigation menu just static and fixed? In reply to the below answer, this is the approach I used with Splunk 5.0 <!-- Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Sideview LLC. All Rights Reserved. --> <view autoCancelInterval="90" isVisible="True" onunloadCancelJobs="true" template="dashboard.html" isSticky="False"> <label>customBehavior 2 addSelectionToAllLinksOnPage example</label> <module name="AccountBar" layoutPanel="appHeader" /> <module name="AppBar" layoutPanel="appHeader" /> <module name="SideviewUtils" layoutPanel="appHeader"> <param name="customJavascript">sideview_utils/custom_behavior_to_rewrite_links.js</param> </module> <module name="Message" layoutPanel="messaging"> <param name="filter">*</param> <param name="maxSize">2</param> <param name="clearOnJobDispatch">False</param> </module> <module name="HTML" layoutPanel="viewHeader"> <param name="html"><![CDATA[ <h1>Testcase for Link-rewriting customBehavior</h1> ]]></param> </module> <module name="HTML" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1"> <param name="html"><![CDATA[ <p> This page, along with the customBehavior defined in application.js, shows an example of a customBehavior implementation where certain key-value pairs from the selected form elements get dynamically rewritten into ALL of the app navigation links. By this I mean that when you change the Pulldown value, and then navigate to any view in the app navigation menu above, </p> ]]></param> </module> <module name="URLLoader" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1" autoRun="True"> <param name="keepURLUpdated">True</param> <module name="Pulldown"> <param name="name">test1</param> <param name="label">test1</param> <param name="staticOptions"> <list> <param name="label">fooLabel</param> <param name="value">fooValue</param> </list> <list> <param name="label">barLabel</param> <param name="value">barValue</param> </list> <list> <param name="label">bazLabel</param> <param name="value">bazValue</param> </list> </param> <module name="CustomBehavior"> <param name="customBehavior">addSelectionToAllLinksOnPage</param> </module> <module name="HTML"> <param name="html"><![CDATA[ <p> selected value is:<br> $test1$ </p> Note that the customBehavior will only rewrite links that are in the app navigation menus. So barring some modification to the JS, the following links will NOT get the special href-rewriting behavior. <br> <a href="testcases_for_link_rewrite_custom_behavior">link1</a><br> <a href="/app/sideview_utils/testcases_for_link_rewrite_custom_behavior">link2</a> ]]></param> </module> </module> <module name="Pulldown"> <param name="name">host</param> <param name="label">host</param> <param name="staticOptions"> <list> <param name="label">abc1012361</param> <param name="value">abc1012361</param> </list> <list> <param name="label">abc1012362</param> <param name="value">abc1012362</param> </list> </param> <module name="CustomBehavior"> <param name="customBehavior">addHostToAllLinksOnPage</param> </module> </module> </module> </view> /* THE FOLLOWING IS AN ADVANCED PROTOTYPE AND NOT CORE FUNCTIONALITY. IF YOU DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND IT AND FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS PRESENCE ON YOUR PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, DO NOT USE. see "testcases_for_link_rewrite_custom_behavior.xml" in Sideview Utils. Advanced customBehavior and other custom code to implement a feature whereby several views can have one or more pulldowns, where even if the user navigates away from the view to another random view, if the pulldown(s) are present in the new view, the selected value is always passed from the first view to the second. Again, this behavior happens even if the user uses the app navigation bar to switch views. As such the implementation involves actively rewriting the href attributes of the actual link elements in the HTML. */ if (typeof(Sideview)!="undefined") { var fieldsToPreserve = ["test1", "host"]; function rewriteLinks(argDict) { // We start by getting a collection of all the link elements within the // AppBar module (aka the app navigation menus). var linksToRewrite = $("div.AppBar a"); // depending on version the submenus of the AppBar may not actually be // in the AppBar module's container div. var splunkVersion = Splunk.util.getConfigValue("VERSION_LABEL"); if (Sideview.utils.compareVersions(splunkVersion,"4.3") > -1) { var extraMenuLinks = $("body .outerMenuWrapper .innerMenuWrapper a"); linksToRewrite = linksToRewrite.add(extraMenuLinks); } linksToRewrite.each(function(i) { var a = $(this); var href = a.attr("href"); // dont mess with these links. They might have their own args. if (a.text() == "Help" || a.text() == "About" || href.charAt(0)=="#") return true; // dont mess with these links either. Especially with the patch to // get all the links that 4.3 puts at the bottom of the page, we're // going to be iterating through links that are from a number of // other modules that have action menus. if (href.substring(0,11)=="javascript:") return true; // nor do we touch links that go to other apps. if (href.indexOf("/app/" + Splunk.util.getCurrentApp() + "/")==-1) return true; var newArgDict = {}; if (href.indexOf("?")!=-1) { // make sure to preserve any existing args (uncommon but important). var existingArgDict = Sideview.utils.stringToDict(a.attr("href").substring(href.indexOf("?")+1)); // well not all of them. We're about to write new definitive // values for our "fieldsToPreserve" ones, so we throw the // old values away. for (var j=0,len=fieldsToPreserve.length;j<len;j++) { for (var name in existingArgDict) { var result = existingArgDict.hasOwnProperty(name); if (result) { if (name == fieldsToPreserve[j] && (argDict[fieldsToPreserve[j]])) { delete existingArgDict[fieldsToPreserve[j]]; } } } } $.extend(argDict,existingArgDict); // clean all the old qs args off the string. href = href.substring(0,href.indexOf("?")); } href += "?"+Sideview.utils.dictToString(argDict); $(this).attr("href",href); //console.log("final href: " + href); }); }; Sideview.utils.declareCustomBehavior("addSelectionToAllLinksOnPage", function(customBehaviorModule) { customBehaviorModule.onContextChange = function() { var context = this.getContext(); var args ={}; for (var i=0,len=fieldsToPreserve.length;i<len;i++) { var f = fieldsToPreserve[i]; // get the untemplated value if there is one. var value = context.get(f + ".rawValue") || context.get(f); if (value) { args[f] = value; } } // an option you might also need is to preserve the current // timerange as seen from the customBehavior module. //var range = context.get("search").getTimeRange(); //if (range.getEarliestTimeTerms()) args["earliest"] = range.getEarliestTimeTerms(); //if (range.getLatestTimeTerms()) args["latest"] = range.getLatestTimeTerms(); rewriteLinks(args); }.bind(customBehaviorModule); }); Sideview.utils.declareCustomBehavior("addHostToAllLinksOnPage", function(customBehaviorModule) { customBehaviorModule.onContextChange = function() { var context = this.getContext(); var args ={}; for (var i=0,len=fieldsToPreserve.length;i<len;i++) { var f = fieldsToPreserve[i]; // get the untemplated value if there is one. var value = context.get(f + ".rawValue") || context.get(f); if (value) { args[f] = value; } } // an option you might also need is to preserve the current // timerange as seen from the customBehavior module. //var range = context.get("search").getTimeRange(); //if (range.getEarliestTimeTerms()) args["earliest"] = range.getEarliestTimeTerms(); //if (range.getLatestTimeTerms()) args["latest"] = range.getLatestTimeTerms(); rewriteLinks(args); }.bind(customBehaviorModule); }); // this rewrites the page links initially, so that they're set before even // the first context push hits our CustomBehavior. We have to wait until // allModulesInHierarchy is fired or else the AppBar's menus wont exist. $(document).bind("allModulesInHierarchy", function() { var qsDict = Sideview.utils.stringToDict(document.location.search.substring(1)); rewriteLinks(qsDict); }); } ... View more