topic Form line break in description in Dashboards & Visualizations

Form line break in description

pbarbuto — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 03:31:16 GMT

I cant figure on the simple XML to have a second line in the description of a dashboard.

Here's what I have:

Label
Description1. Description2.

Here's what I want:

Label
Description1.
Description2.

Any help is appreciated.

Re: Form line break in description

woodcock — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 15:38:17 GMT

I have never found a way to do this. In the Panels, you can comment out the title tag and use your own html and then use <br> but Splunk will not allow html in the dashboard node.

Re: Form line break in description

yuanliu — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 03:54:04 GMT

A workaround can be to place <html> inside <fieldset> even if you do not plan to add <input>. (If you have no <input>, make sure to make submitButton="false".)

You can always add a blank <row> with only <html> in it. This is not exactly a workaround because <html> work the same way as in any other <row>. It also has the side effect of showing in a different background colour from .

Re: Form line break in description

pbarbuto — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 02:42:11 GMT

Thanks! I didn't know I could add html in there.

Re: Form line break in description

nick405060 — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:17:25 GMT

Technically you can add a line break in your description by adding one whitespace after your first line, adding an entire line of non-whitespace characters (enough to force a newline), adding one whitespace after that, and then adding your next line.

<description>First line ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Second line</description>

This gives me:

First line
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Second line

(Looks better in Splunk)

It's not elegant, and is going to give you resizing/browser problems, but Splunk's SimpleXML was designed by a 5 year old, so

Re: Form line break in description

sansay — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 03:46:42 GMT

"5 year old" sounds about right!
I used to do great things with Advanced XML, now I am struggling just to make radio buttons work correctly and prevent table queries from running immediately upon loading a dashboard.

Re: Form line break in description

sugreev916 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:22:10 GMT

How can I split a single value into two separate values in a single value panel?

Currently, my single value panel displays:

Total :100 Error: 20

I would like to display:

Total: 100
Error :20

It works for a table, but not for a single value panel. How can I achieve this?