How to create a button on a dashboard ?

[theouhuios]

Hello

I am trying to create a Button which when clicked will open up an external link which would be the help document of that dashboard. Any help or ideas on how to do this?

Update:

I tried using HTML module in this and it works. But the modules below aren't getting any data and the dashboards are not being populated because of this.

<module name="HTML"  layoutPanel="appHeader">
                      <param name="html"><![CDATA[

                        <div>Ch.

                        <a class="rawLink" href="xxx
" target="_blank">Help Document</a>
                        </div>]]></param>
                    </module>

theou

[theouhuios · Accepted solution]

This is what I did to make it work.

<module name="StaticContentSample" layoutPanel="appHeader">
        <param name="text">&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="0X9AAB1F"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Want to know more about this dashboard? Check out the online &lt;a target="_blank" href=xxx</param>
        <module name="Gimp"/>
      </module>

[sideview]

Well if you want it to look like a button, the easiest thing is to use a Button and a Redirector probably

<module name="Button">
  <param name="label">help</param>
  <module name="Redirector">
    <param name="url">http://google.com?q=something</param>
  </module>
</module>

As to why the HTML module you used disrupted the other modules below.... something else must be going on because that's not really possible. That HTML module looks fine. But I'm happy to help track down whatever it is if I can.

[sideview]

Well, you can add an HTML module to a view without including the SideviewUtils module at the top, and it will work, in that the HTML will render. However the javascript to run the module will be missing and this will derail a lot of the javascript in the page. I think that's what you were seeing. Indeed StaticContentSample can be used to embed simple static HTML. Glad you found what you needed.

[theouhuios]

Not really 🙂 I was just playing around with it and it actually worked. So I thought may be it will really work even with a sideview module. But I was wrong.

[sideview]

Oh. Well HTML is a Sideview module not a Splunk module, so maybe that's why your view was't working when you added an HTML module to it? It's a common pitfall for people to come to think of Search and HTML and all that as core Splunk modules when in fact they're all part of Sideview Utils.

[theouhuios]

Thanks Nick. But wouldn't the dashboard need to be created using sideview modules for this to work? It's completely written in advance xml only. Splunk gives this error when I try it "Splunk cannot find the "Breakdown_by_Service" view."