Object permissions
Almost all objects in Splunk have permissions associated with them. The permissions essentially have the following three options:
- Private: Only the user that created the search can see or use the object, and only in the app where it was created
- App: All users that have permission to read an object may use that object in the context of the app that contains the object
- Global: All users that have permission to read an object may use that object in any app
How permissions affect navigation
To see a visible instance of permissions in action, let's look at our navigation.
In our application, Implementing Splunk App One
, our navigation looks like this:
If you recall the navigation XML which we built earlier, this menu is controlled by the ...
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