I will not be able to give screenshots but the issue was larger than just selected fields. It was no data was saving on a per user basis. This includes selected fields, search mode, and many other things. I found in another thread that the newer versions of Splunk come with an "Optimizations" script that disables these by default and in the documentation it states to not disable this. However in the thread the Splunk guy said this optimization was meant for environments with over 1000 users. My environment has a handful of users so disabling has not caused any issues so far. This has fixed my issues of saved data not persisting for each user. However, If it is possible I would like to keep the optimizations but then disable certain features that it is optimizing. is that possible? Example: Only optimizing search mode since verbose could theoretically take the most processing power. I hope I have explained this enough. Edit: Here is the thread I spoke about - https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/9-0-5-ui-prefs-conf-Why-my-default-search-mode-in-search-page-on/m-p/652794
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