topic Re: How do you set the colour of a Single Value showing text? in Dashboards & Visualizations

How do you set the colour of a Single Value showing text?

sillingworth — Fri, 05 May 2017 12:45:14 GMT

My Single Value is showing text, not a number, so setting a colour range doesn't work, it always stays dark grey.

I've found answers to this that use classField, but Splunk tells me that's deprecated.

Is there another way to do this?

Re: How do you set the colour of a Single Value showing text?

richgalloway — Fri, 05 May 2017 14:45:43 GMT

We had the same problem. The classField option worked until we installed 6.5.2. Even though it's deprecated, we expect it to work correctly until removed.
Our workaround is to turn off the useColors option. Seems counter-intuitive, but it worked.

<option name="useColors">0</option>

Re: How do you set the colour of a Single Value showing text?

sillingworth — Fri, 05 May 2017 14:50:29 GMT

Ah, that's stopped it colouring the whole block, but now the text has turned dark grey.

Re: How do you set the colour of a Single Value showing text?

richgalloway — Fri, 05 May 2017 15:56:57 GMT

That didn't happen to us. Are you using <option name="colorBy">value</option> and <option name="colorMode">block</option>?

Re: How do you set the colour of a Single Value showing text?

sillingworth — Mon, 08 May 2017 09:07:18 GMT

Yep. What colour is your text and how do you set it?

Re: How do you set the colour of a Single Value showing text?

richgalloway — Tue, 09 May 2017 18:03:35 GMT

Our text is white, which I understand is the default color.