Dashboards & Visualizations

Color table cells in scheduled PDF delivery

bruceclarke
Contributor

I know I can add javascript to a dashboard to color table cells based on each cell's value. When I download the PDF, however, the cell's color is obviously removed. I was wondering if there is a way to schedule a PDF delivery of this dashboard that preserves the table cell colors.

Does anyone know of a solution for this?

shandr
Path Finder

Bumping this thread. I'd like a solution to this post too.

Below is Simple XML code I have used.

<table>
<search></search>
<format type="color" field="Health">
<colorPalette type="map">{"Critical":#6A5C9E, "Abnormal":#6A5C9E, "Normal":#65A637}</colorPalette>
</format>
</table>

See output, image below. (Dashboard left, PDF right.)
shandr_0-1707353225666.png

Splunk Cloud
Version 9.0.2303.201
Experience: Classic

Links to Splunk Cloud docs
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Viz/TableFormatsXML 
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Viz/DashboardPDFs

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sduchene_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

a/look at this app : https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4030/
if it does not fit your need :
b/
One workaround is to use a css for printing, using very thick borders :
example of css :

@media print {
td.range-severe {
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1000px darkred !important;
color: #eee !important;
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important;
}
}

working example with this app, containing the js and css, and a dashboard : https://github.com/simondev65/tableprintpdf
look for the dashboard inside, export to pdf using your browser : print->pdf. (not the export to pdf within splunk).
alt text

(this example is courtesy of @dveuve_splunk )

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jlaigo2
Path Finder

After over 2 years is splunk still not going to provide a working solution for this?

bruceclarke
Contributor

I'm still having this issue. Does anyone have a workaround?

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carroyo82
New Member

I supposed that if you use format in simple XML you should achieve what you are looking for:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Viz/TableFormatsXML

But the reality is that this does not work, despite of the fact that the documentation talks about all the simpleXML parameteres printed in pdf......

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.0/Viz/DashboardPDFs

"You cannot generate PDFs of dashboards that are built using advanced XML or HTML. PDF generation works only with dashboards built with simple XML."

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