Display Markdown from entity in Markdown widget
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Tero Ahonen
This feature is money, thank you
Naama Ben Oliel Ronen
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You can now connect a Markdown widget to a specific Markdown property.
- On a dashboard page: configure the widget by selecting the Blueprint, the Entity, and the Markdown property you want to display.
- On a specific entity page: simply choose the Markdown property, since the Blueprint and Entity are already implied by the page context.
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Fernando Korndörfer
Naama Ben Oliel Ronen Simply fantastic! Many, many thanks! Does this also work on calculated properties?
Naama Ben Oliel Ronen
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Tero Ahonen
It would be even better if the widget supports templating. Templating would be handlyto create one text box from multiple properties. In my use cases with JIRA issue or GitHub PR entity page you could use markdown/text widget to display description and comments as text. For example PR description can be displayed as an own tab if property type is markdown, but that that would be extra tab. Would be nice to have averything visible in one look.
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Simon Beaulieu
Example use case: Having a dashboard that represents a collection of mermaid diagrams which are sourced from a repository. Assuming we have a dedicated blueprint that represents a single mermaid diagram with some metadata, we could create a dashboard that displays a collection of markdown widgets that renders diagrams for entities of that blueprint.
Another use case is with CodeQL alerts, there's a "Help" property in each CodeQL alert that is a markdown formatted string which explains potential solutions for the root cause of the alert. For a security focused dashboard we could include this documentation in markdown widgets alongside lists of currently open alerts. Engineers could use this dashboard to prioritize fixing alerts based on severity and immediately benefit from some pointers on how to implement the solution