topic Re: Color table cells in scheduled PDF delivery in Dashboards & Visualizations

Color table cells in scheduled PDF delivery

bruceclarke — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:00:31 GMT

I know I can add javascript to a dashboard to color table cells based on each cell's value. When I download the PDF, however, the cell's color is obviously removed. I was wondering if there is a way to schedule a PDF delivery of this dashboard that preserves the table cell colors.

Does anyone know of a solution for this?

Re: Color table cells in scheduled PDF delivery

bruceclarke — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:03:04 GMT

I'm still having this issue. Does anyone have a workaround?

Re: Color table cells in scheduled PDF delivery

carroyo82 — Tue, 23 May 2017 15:35:11 GMT

I supposed that if you use format in simple XML you should achieve what you are looking for:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Viz/TableFormatsXML

But the reality is that this does not work, despite of the fact that the documentation talks about all the simpleXML parameteres printed in pdf......

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.0/Viz/DashboardPDFs

"You cannot generate PDFs of dashboards that are built using advanced XML or HTML. PDF generation works only with dashboards built with simple XML."

Re: Color table cells in scheduled PDF delivery

jlaigo2 — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:18:10 GMT

After over 2 years is splunk still not going to provide a working solution for this?

Re: Color table cells in scheduled PDF delivery

sduchene_splunk — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:30:35 GMT

a/look at this app : https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4030/
if it does not fit your need :
b/
One workaround is to use a css for printing, using very thick borders :
example of css :

@media print { td.range-severe { box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1000px darkred !important; color: #eee !important; -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important; } }

working example with this app, containing the js and css, and a dashboard : https://github.com/simondev65/tableprintpdf
look for the dashboard inside, export to pdf using your browser : print->pdf. (not the export to pdf within splunk).

(this example is courtesy of @dveuve_splunk )

Re: Color table cells in scheduled PDF delivery

shandr — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:00:01 GMT

Bumping this thread. I'd like a solution to this post too.

Below is Simple XML code I have used.

<table>
  <search></search>
  <format type="color" field="Health">
    <colorPalette type="map">{"Critical":#6A5C9E, "Abnormal":#6A5C9E, "Normal":#65A637}</colorPalette>
  </format>
</table>

See output, image below. (Dashboard left, PDF right.)

Splunk Cloud
Version 9.0.2303.201
Experience: Classic

Links to Splunk Cloud docs
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Viz/TableFormatsXML
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Viz/DashboardPDFs