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Highlight empty fields in color

Hema_Nithya
Explorer

How to highlight empty fields in the dashboard in colours . Simple step pls 

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What is the visualisation you are using in the dashboard?

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Hema_Nithya
Explorer

Dashboard, with search query which produces output table format.

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Add the following format statement to your XML

<format type="color" field="Status">
  <colorPalette type="expression">case(match(value, "^$$"), "#FF00FF")/colorPalette>
</format>

and change the field name to your field and the colour value (#FF00FF) to the one colour you want

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