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Kyle Smith
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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualization. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on Lesser Known Search Commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community and also to the #splunk IRC channel. He was awarded membership into the SplunkTrust as a founding member. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons platform. He has worked in both higher education and private industry; he is currently working as an integration developer for Splunk's longest running professional services partner. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his family.
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Customizing Splunk dashboards using JavaScript


Before we start using custom JavaScript, let's work with the already included JavaScript to make our dashboard include animation. In this example, we will add additional controls to each chart to allow them to slide. This is advantageous in that you can give the user control to hide charts they are not interested in, or that take up too much space to see the charts they want to examine.

First, let's add the slide controls. Right after the panel-element-row div tag for the two charts, you will see a panel-head div tag. After the panel-head div tag, you will see a dashboard-element div tag. The concept here is to use the header as the slide control, thereby leaving the header visible and allowing the end user to notice that there might be more information. In order to achieve this, you must move the header before the element. The default code shows the header contained within the element div:

<div id="element6" class="dashboard-element chart...
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Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualization. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on Lesser Known Search Commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community and also to the #splunk IRC channel. He was awarded membership into the SplunkTrust as a founding member. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons platform. He has worked in both higher education and private industry; he is currently working as an integration developer for Splunk's longest running professional services partner. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his family.
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