Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition - Third Edition

Panel placement

For your dashboard panels, you will almost always use a layoutPanel value of the panel_rowX_colY form.

A simple visualization of the layout produced by our modules would look similar to the following screenshot:

In our simple XML version of this dashboard, the layout was tied directly to the order of the XML, as shown here:

<row> 
<chart></chart> 
</row> 
<row> 
<chart></chart> 
<chart></chart> 
</row> 
<row> 
<event></event> 
</row> 

Just to reiterate, the simple XML structure translates to the following code:

<row> <chart></chart> == panel_row1_col1 </row> <row> <chart></chart> == panel_row2_col1 <chart></chart> == panel_row2_col2 ...