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Splunk Developer's Guide, Second Edition

You're reading from   Splunk Developer's Guide, Second Edition Learn the A to Z of building excellent Splunk applications with the latest techniques using this comprehensive guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785882371
Length 190 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Kyle Smith Kyle Smith
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Marco Scala Marco Scala
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The HTML dashboard


The HTML dashboard can either be generated from an existing SimpleXML dashboard, or it can be written by hand. We recommend creating a SimpleXML dashboard and then converting it. This ensures that the most up-to-date code is generated from the version you are using. For a refresher on how to convert a SimpleXML dashboard to an HTML dashboard, see Chapter 4, Basic Views and Dashboards. The Splunk Web Framework is built into the HTML dashboard and into the core programming of Splunk. The framework is designed to allow maximum extensibility and versatility in the development of dashboards.

The basic code of the previously generated dashboard (see Chapter 4, Basic Views and Dashboards—the dashboard is called Overview) contains various items that are consistent across dashboards. Generally, all of the HTML and CSS definitions are placed within the dashboard code first, with the JavaScript portion at the end. This is a pretty standard best practice, as this allows the page to...

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