Splunk 6 launcher shows apps in reverse order

[richgalloway]

The Splunk 6 launcher (localhost:8000/en-US/app/launcher) displays apps in reverse alphabetical order - "Splunk App for..." comes before "Asset Discovery", for example. Likewise for the "Apps" drop-down at the top of the page (the 'appbar'?). How can I change them to display apps in alphabetical order?

[dlamas_splunk · Accepted solution]

You can drag and drop the panels in Launcher to your preferred order. That will also change the order of the items in the dropdown.

[iKate]

dragging panels in Launcher doesn't change order in the apps' dropdown in the upper left corner. Or which dropdown did you mean?

[mbillings]

@dlamas_splunk - What value would we set the appOrder attribute to if we wanted apps to be sorted alphabetically by default for new users (before they change the order themselves)?

[dlamas_splunk]

We store this order in user-prefs.conf under the appOrder attribute- there's a local and default version of this. If the user drags and drops the panels, we'll save their specific order to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users/USERNAME/user-prefs/local/user-prefs.conf

To set the default for all users, go to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/user-prefs/default/user-prefs.conf

[slierninja]

@dlamas_splunk - How do you change the ordering for all users? This workaround only affects the current user. This is a breaking change from the previous launcher page.