topic Re: Editing number precision in the source dashboard editor-Why is my precision option not persisting but other options in Dashboards & Visualizations

Editing number precision in the source dashboard editor-Why is my precision option not persisting but other options are?

MDSplunkNinja — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:05:46 GMT

Hello,

I have a dashboard which has one panel displaying a statistics table. The table is very wide (~300 numeric columns) which makes manually editing the number precision for each column prohibitive in the UI. I attempted to do this in the source editor but the number precision I input does not translate to the table in the panel after saving.

Here is a sample block of code I am inserting:

<format type="number" field="xxxxx_percent"> <option name="precision">0.000</option> <option name="unit">%</option> <option name="unitPosition">after</option> </format>

and the result looks like this:

Anyone know why my precision option is not persisting but the other options are?

Thank you in advance!

-MD

Re: Editing number precision in the source dashboard editor

richgalloway — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:48:07 GMT

The precision option expects an integer specifying the number of decimal places to display. Entering "0.000" means show no decimals. Try

See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.1/Viz/TableFormatsXML#Number_format_rules for more information.

Re: Editing number precision in the source dashboard editor-Why is my precision option not persisting but other options

MDSplunkNinja — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:55:22 GMT

This makes total sense. It is a little misleading however between the UI format option which gives options like 0, 0.0, 0.00, 0.000, 0.0000, and the Source format which requires an integer which when having zero decimal precision is the same setting in both..."0". An enhancement for the UI to align with the Source editing would probably be a good idea.

Re: Editing number precision in the source dashboard editor-Why is my precision option not persisting but other options

richgalloway — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:01:02 GMT

You're not wrong. Go to https://ideas.splunk.com to make your suggestion.