Splunk: Convert a Simple XML Dashboard to Advanced XML

Date: 2014-06-04 |

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**Problem: **I have a simple XML dashboard that I want to convert to advanced XML, but there aren’t any buttons to do so.

**Solution: **The solution is easy, albeit not quite straight forward.

  1. First open the dashboard you’ve created in a browser (go to its url).
  2. Append “?showsource=true” to the end of the URL (leave out the quotation marks).
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the resulting page and copy the XML found there.
  4. Create a new view and paste that XML there.
  5. Check to ensure that both the new view and old view look and function the same.

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