Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence

Understanding layoutPanel

In an advanced XML dashboard, which panel a module is drawn to is determined by the value of the layoutPanel attribute. This separation of logic and layout can be useful—for instance, allowing you to reuse data generated by a query with multiple modules—but displays the results on different parts of the page.

A few rules about this attribute are as follows:

• The layoutPanel attribute must appear on all immediate children of <view>.
• The layoutPanel attribute can appear on descendant child module tags.
• If a module does not have a layoutPanel attribute, it will inherit the value from the closest upstream module that does.
• Modules that have visible output are added to their respective layoutPanel attribute in the order they appear ...