I'm building a drop-down menu for picking the timechart span in simple dashboard.
By default I'd like to have automatic span, something like span="Auto" is there a way to get it in Splunk 4.3.6?
Since you are using an old Splunk release, you may want to visit this answer:
http://answers.splunk.com/answers/5434/timerangepicker-custom-values.html