Dashboard Studio: Schedule This!

We're excited to announce support for scheduled email export for Dashboard Studio, the ability to set tokens from multiple places, and a new option to round the corners of your visualizations. 

Scheduled Email Export and API for Dashboard Studio

Ever since it's been possible to create beautiful dashboards with Dashboard Studio, customers have been asking for the ability to send scheduled email exports of their dashboards. It's our 3rd most upvoted feature request on Splunk Ideas!

Starting with Splunk Cloud Platform 9.1.2312, you will be able to schedule your Studio dashboards for scheduled email exports from the Actions dropdown.

You can then set your schedule and specify other options, which you are likely familiar with from Classic (SimpleXML) dashboards scheduled export. 

Speaking of Classic dashboards, let's cover some key differences:

• This new scheduled export feature only works for Dashboard Studio
• Your export will maintain the look and feel of the dashboard, as if you took a screenshot of the dashboard 
• Your Studio dashboard can contain inputs and tokens, so long as there are default values specified 
• You cannot select the token values used in the dashboard export, other than the default values 

We have also added API support to trigger an export of the dashboard, and you can find an example in our docs. You can use the API to generate dashboard exports that you can embed into other applications, replacing the need to manage multiple embedded scheduled reports.

There are a few limitations for this initial release that we're still working on such as support for map visualizations and search-based tokens. You can learn more by visiting our docs. 

If you want to move one of your existing Classic scheduled dashboards, you can do so by manually rebuilding the dashboard in Dashboard Studio or using our conversion feature, which will automate as much of the rebuilding as possible. You can learn more about that conversion feature in this blog post.

Set Tokens From Multiple Places

We've heard multiple requests to have both an input and drilldown interaction set the same token. This way, you can initially use an input to set a token, but later update it while clicking around and interacting with the dashboard. If it gets updated by selecting something on the dashboard, the new value will be reflected in the input as well. 

Previously, you could only set tokens from one place. As of this release, you can now set tokens from multiple places to configure a more interactive and intuitive experience for your end users. Let's take a look at an example: 

In this example, there is a dropdown input and table, which both list the sourcetypes in this Splunk instance, and a pie chart which shows the breakdown of various status codes for the selected sourcetype. As the dropdown selection changes, the pie chart changes. When a sourcetype is selected from the table, you can see that both the pie chart and the dropdown input are changing as well.  

Some things to keep in mind: 

• If a token is shared between an input and an interaction, the token's default value is set by the input. You will not be able to set a different default value in the interaction configuration. 
• Imagine a token is shared by a drilldown and an input. If the drilldown sets the token value to a type that isn't supported by the input, you will see a validation error in the dashboard.
• If you configure multiple inputs to share the same token, you will see validation errors. 

Rounded Corners

Rounded corners on visualizations may seem trivial, but they can actually help you achieve a more polished look in your dashboard without having to use a rectangle as a background. 

Previously, we saw users try to get that "rounded corner" look by adding a visualization and making its background transparent, and then adding a rectangle behind it with the desired color and rounded corners. That's twice as many panels as should be necessary! 

With this release, you'll now be able to specify a corner radius for your visualization panels, which will hopefully make it a lot easier to design and polish your dashboard. To apply a rounded corner, select any visualization, and look for the "Color and style" section in the configuration panel. At the bottom of the section, you'll see the option to set corner radius. 

Just for fun, check out how this pie chart looks when its corner radii are 0 versus 1000. Here's the before:

And here's the after! You can get creative with this kind of design for your pie or donut charts.

Coming Soon

Check out Dashboard Studio and send in your feedback through Splunk Ideas, and you might see your feature request listed on a future blog's "coming soon" list! We are continuing to work on new capabilities, which are delivered incrementally with Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise releases. 

Next up….

• Trellis for axes charts 
• Additional conversion improvements 
• Maps and search token support in Scheduled Export 

Helpful Resources

• Dashboard Studio demo 
• Dashboard Studio Blogs - Catch up on our other recent updates with Studio
• Dashboard Studio Tutorial
• Improving Dashboard Performance and Resource Usage Tech Talk
• Splunk Dashboard Studio Documentation
• Splunk Ideas - Dashboard Studio for feature or enhancement Requests
• Examples Hub - Find the Examples Hub from the Dashboards page in Search & Reporting
• Splunk Community - Dashboards & Visualizations for questions
  
  

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