How to export tables in dashboard to Excel format ...

marxsabandana · ‎06-18-2019

I got this code from CodexWorld(dot)com. How can I integrate this in a Splunk dashboard?

 function exportTableToExcel(tableID, filename = ''){
        var downloadLink;
        var dataType = 'application/vnd.ms-excel';
        var tableSelect = document.getElementById(tableID);
        var tableHTML = tableSelect.outerHTML.replace(/ /g, '%20');

        // Specify file name
        filename = filename?filename+'.xls':'excel_data.xls';

        // Create download link element
        downloadLink = document.createElement("a");

        document.body.appendChild(downloadLink);

        if(navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob){
            var blob = new Blob(['\ufeff', tableHTML], {
                type: dataType
            });
            navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob( blob, filename);
        }else{
            // Create a link to the file
            downloadLink.href = 'data:' + dataType + ', ' + tableHTML;

            // Setting the file name
            downloadLink.download = filename;

            //triggering the function
            downloadLink.click();
        }
    }

Then I put a button wrapped in an html tag, with putting an id in my table like this:

<html>
<button class="btn btn-primary" onclick="exportTableToExcel('tableid1', 'file-name')">Export Table Data To Excel File</button>
</html>

I also already tried using the Excel Export app at Splunkbase but I need to modify the code, to make the table headers in bold font weight and have dynamic column size depending on the text length of each headers.

pramit46 · ‎06-18-2019

Hi @marxsabandana

Please refer this question (the requirements was almost similar) and see if it helps:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/749857/how-to-make-a-second-download-button.html#answer-749318

I have provided an example of csv file. But you can try to change the format to xls and see if that works.

marxsabandana · ‎06-18-2019

Thanks. Will check on it now.

pramit46 · ‎06-20-2019

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at1ll3y · ‎06-18-2019

Hi,

you have to create a javascript file in App/appserver/static/your_script_name.js.

this file has to contain this:

require([
"splunkjs/mvc/simplexml/ready!"
], function() {

PUT YOUR CODE HERE

});

To reference this javascript file in your dashboard, you have to add it the header of the dashboard like this:

How to export tables in dashboard to Excel format using JavaScript?

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