Chapter 3. Expand Your Splunk Apps Using Simple XML
By now, you have started to learn that the Splunk Web Framework allows you to make attractive and functional dashboards with ease through the web interface. You may be wondering why we would want to complicate things by diverging from this and using code to configure and manipulate our Splunk apps and interface. Well, the web interface has come a long way in the past few years and you can achieve quite a lot, but there are still some things that you cannot do and need to turn to the code to achieve them.
This is where SimpleXML comes in. As we saw at the end of our last chapter, we were not able to change the default display page of our Splunk app using the web interface. This and many other things ...
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