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ldoodle
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9 months ago

Table style widget + values from PropertSource - possible?

Hi, I’m just fiddling now but I had a thought about exposing at least Windows resources Windows Update info. The only way I’ve been able to do this is with an Alert style widget, but it doesn’t look...
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    Mike_Moniz
    9 months ago

    Having tables support property columns is a popular request. I suggest submitting that as feedback to LM. I’m not sure how color bars would work for properties since they are not numbers but perhaps there is a way to implement something close.

    As a workaround, perhaps you can create a “Info” DataSource that reports the version as a number. Like perhaps remove all the dots after the first one and do some zero padding (so 1.9.1 → 1.09001). Without the padding 1.10.2 (1.102) will come before 1.9.1 (1.91).

    There are also some forum posts you might find that do hacky tricks to use the API to generate HTML table code which can be displayed by the Text widget.

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Anonymous
9 months ago

I do something similar. I create a datasource that pulls the data via the api, makes some html (usually using jinja2) and pushes that html to a rich text widget on a dashboard. Gives me complete control over what shows up, how it’s displayed, sortable columns, filtering, etc.

The datasource datapoint is just a return value along with the number of things processed.