You can make use of the KV store to store information and retrieve https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/manageknowledge/kvstore/  https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/manageknowledge/kvstore/usetherestapitomanagekv/ https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/manageknowledge/kvstore/uselookupswithkvstore/ Splunk JS can be then used to control the button actions and processing the record. There were some dev materials available explaining the overall process but looks like its removed. There are some third party documentation available in public for splunk KVStore CRUD   ... View more

Sounds like you need to to in your custom python script - create a function / code that looks at the inputs file for the key=value as a variable and use that This is a simple test that you can get the value you want - but you will have to dev the code in your python script python3 -c 'print(open("/Splunk/etc/apps/$app/local/inputs.conf").read())' | grep 'value-name = value' ... View more

Hi When you are creating an app into Splunk with GUI, there are two separate templates to chosen. Based on your chose it will create different files and directories under that app. When you are starting to create own apps and TAs, I strongly propose that you start to use e.g. git to store those and keep track on your changes. Then you could use some editor like Visual Studio Code to write those together with Simple XML editor and/or Dashboard Studio. There are some old .conf presentation how you can do this. Also read instructions from dev.splunk.com about this. r. Ismo ... View more