The Text Display widget can read text from a Web page or text file. You specify the URL of the Web page or the name of the text file when you configure the Text widget. To use the Text Display widget to read text files you must set a property in the

web.properties

file to specify the root folder that contains the file.

You can enter content in the Text Display widget in plain text or rich text format based on the view mode that you configure. Configure the Text Display widget in HTML view mode to display content in rich text format. Configure the Text Display widget in Text mode to display content in plain text format.

The Text Display widget can display websites that use the HTTPS protocol. The behavior of the Text Display widget with websites that use HTTP, depends on the individual settings of the websites.

You can configure the widget in the Text view mode or HTML view mode. In the HTML view mode, you can click

Edit

in the widget and use the rich text editor to add content.

If you configure the widget to use Text view mode, you can specify the path to the directory that contains the files to read or you can provide a URL. The content in the URL will be shown as text. If you do not specify a URL or text file, you can add content in the widget. Double-click the widget and enter content in plain text.

You can also use command-line interface (CLI) commands to add file content to the Text Display widget.

To view a list of parameters, run the
file -h|import|export|delete|list txtwidget
command.
To import text or HTML content, run the
import txtwidget input-file [--title title] [--force]
command.
To export the content to the file, run the
export txtwidget all|title[{,title}] [output-dir]
command.
To delete imported content, run the
delete txtwidget all|title[{,title}]
command.
To view the titles of the content, run the
list txtwidget
command.

The widget might be included on any of your custom dashboards. From the left menu, click

Visualize

Dashboards

to see your configured dashboards.

To customize the data that appears in the dashboard widget, from the left menu, click

Visualize

Dashboards

. To create your dashboard, from the left menu, click

Visualize

Dashboards

. From the

Dashboards

panel, click

Create

. To edit your dashboard, from the left menu, click

Visualize

Dashboards

. From the

Dashboards

panel, select the dashboard you want to edit and select

Actions

Edit

. Toggle between the

Views

and

Widgets

option to view and add a widget or view to the dashboard. The widgets list panel displays a list of all the predefined widgets. Drag a widget to the dashboard workspace in the upper panel.

On the title bar of the widget, click the

Edit Widget

icon to configure the widget.

The configuration options are grouped into one or more sections. You can select the objects on which you want to base the widget data and refine the objects in the following sections. Each section filters the objects further and pushes the filtered objects to the next section. The widget data is based on the objects that are the output of the last section.

The

Configuration

section provides general configuration options for the widget.