Text panels

To provide context to your dashboard panels, add Text panels that display important information, instructions, images, and more. You can create Text panels using GitHub-flavored Markdown text.

You can also save a Markdown panel to the Visualize Library to reuse it across multiple dashboards. For details, refer to Save and reuse Markdown panels across dashboards.

1. From your dashboard, select Add => New panel.
2. In the Add panel flyout, select Markdown Text. A Markdown editor appears and lets you configure the information you want to display.
3. Enter your text, then click Apply.

While switching between Editor and Preview modes, you can keep editing your text.

For example, in Editor mode you enter:

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The following instructions are displayed in Preview mode:

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Or when you enter:

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The following image is displayed:

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For detailed information about writing on GitHub, click Syntax help on the top-right of the Markdown editor.

1. From your dashboard, select Add panel.
2. In the Add panel flyout, select Text. A Markdown editor appears and lets you configure the information you want to display.
3. In the Markdown field, enter your text, then click Update.

For example, when you enter:

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The following instructions are displayed:

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Or when you enter:

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The following image is displayed:

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For detailed information about writing on GitHub, click Help on the top-right of the Markdown editor.

Save a Markdown panel to the Visualize Library so you can add it to multiple dashboards. When you edit a saved Markdown panel, your changes are reflected on every dashboard that uses it. For an overview of the library, refer to Visualize Library.

To save an existing Markdown panel from a dashboard to the Visualize Library:

1. On your dashboard, open the panel menu of the Markdown panel.
2. Select Save to library.
3. Enter a Title for the panel, then select Save.

The panel is now linked to the library. Any subsequent edit you apply to it from a dashboard updates the library entry, and the change appears on every dashboard where the panel is added.

To add a previously saved Markdown panel to a dashboard:

1. From your dashboard, select Add > From library in the toolbar.
2. From the Types dropdown, select Markdown.
3. Select the panel you want to add.

To make changes to a saved Markdown panel on a single dashboard without affecting other dashboards, unlink it from the library:

1. On your dashboard, open the panel menu of the Markdown panel.
2. Select Unlink from library.

The panel is now part of the dashboard only. Edits you make to it no longer update the library entry or other dashboards.