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Good morning splunkers,

Instead of keep all views created for an app into the <myappfolder>\default(or LOCAL)\data\ui\views, does exist a way to tell Splunk those views are at the same location but organized into some subfolders ?

Examples>

  • <myappfolder>\default(or LOCAL)\data\ui\views\folder1
  • <myappfolder>\default(or LOCAL)\data\ui\views\folder2
  • <myappfolder>\default(or LOCAL)\data\ui\views\folderN

Thanks in advance for your time and support.

nik

asked 30 Jun '10, 09:47

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No I dont think there's any way you can have a subfolder in the views directory. I just tried it out to make sure and they dont come back from the EAI endpoint so that means they dont really exist at all.

It's unfortunate because apps can grow quite large. One strategy followed by some of the larger apps like ESS and the Cisco app is to organize whole areas of functionality into smaller apps that are marked with is_visible=False in their app.conf. At that point it's called an 'addon' instead of an 'app', but anyway those 'addons' then each promote all of their content into the the global space, and then there's a single master app (that we at that point call a 'suite') whose navigation then organizes all the views from the various component addons beneath it.

This is quite an undertaking and not without its downsides, but I mention this because if you're at the point where you have 20 or 50 views in there, you may be having other organizational problems you want to solve too...

Note: in an app folders for static files can have subfolders although many people dont know this (etc//appserver/static can have subfolders)

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answered 30 Jun '10, 22:39

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Hi nick, as usual your answer fits perfectly my needings. Thanks so much for your time

nik_

(01 Jul '10, 08:31) nik_splunk
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