Text Display
Widget
You can use the
Text Display widget to show text in the user interface. The text appears in the
Text Display widget on the dashboard.
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.
If the webpage that you are linking
to has
X-Frame-Options
set to
sameorigin
, which denies rendering a page in an
iframe, the Text Display widget cannot display the contents of the webpage.
How the Text Display
Widget Configuration Options Work
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 thefile -h|import|export|delete|list txtwidgetcommand.
- To import text or HTML content, run theimport txtwidget input-file [--title title] [--force]command.
- To export the content to the file, run theexport txtwidget all|title[{,title}] [output-dir]command.
- To delete imported content, run thedelete txtwidget all|title[{,title}]command.
- To view the titles of the content, run thelist txtwidgetcommand.
Where You Find the Text Display Widget
The widget might be included on any of your custom
dashboards. From the left menu, click
to see your configured dashboards. To customize the data that appears in the dashboard
widget, from the left menu, click
. To create your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards
panel, click
Create
. To edit your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards
panel, select the
dashboard you want to edit and select . 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.Text Display Widget Configuration
Options
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.Option
| Description
|
---|---|
Title
| Enter a custom title that
identifies this widget from other instances that are based on the same widget
template.
|
Configuration | |
Refresh Content
| Activate or deactivate the automatic refreshing of the
data in this widget. If not activated, the widget is updated only when the
dashboard is opened or when you click the Refresh button on
the widget in the dashboard. |
Refresh Interval
| If you activate the Refresh
Content option, specify how often to refresh the data in this
widget. |
Self Provider | Indicates whether the objects
for which data appears in the widget are defined in the widget or provided by
another widget.
|
View mode
| Display text in text
or rich text format. You can configure the widget in HTML view mode only when
the
URL and
File fields are
blank.
|
URL
| Enter the URL.
|
File
| Navigate to the file
that contains the source text file by clicking the Select button. TxtWidgetContent node in the Configuration Files
page. From the left menu, click , from the VMware Aria
Operations user interface. |
Test
| Validates the
correctness of the text file or URL that you enter.
|