Business Text Plugin - Is it possible to display queried markdown formatting?

[calvinnisson]

Hello,

I’m currently attempting to use Business Text in order to display some Markdown text on my Grafana dashboard, but currently can’t seem to understand what I’m trying to do based on the documentation I’ve been reading here: Business Text | Volkov Labs

Currently, I have a script in Windmill.dev which returns some text in markdown formatting, which then gets rendered in a module there. I’m attempting to migrate this over to Grafana and from what I’ve found it seems like the best tool to use for this is the Business Text plugin (regular Text doesn’t seem to allow for queries). My datasource is just an infinity datasource hooked up to Windmill.

The problem I’m running into is that the text does not appear to be registering as markdown when loaded into the plugin’s panel, even though I have the “Markdown” option selected.

Is there some sort of manipulation that I need to do with the “JavaScript code before content rendering” option? I was expecting this to be the case, but even when I attempt to set it to a variable there and load the variable into the content box, but the content box does not appear to have the ability to read variables from the JavaScript component, so I found myself lost there.

Thanks!

Bonus Question: I originally have the script returning three different sets of this markdown text at once, though it seems as though only the first one gets picked up in my Grafana table. Is that a limitation on Grafana that I just need to separate into three scripts for, or is there a way around that as well?

[yosiasz]

what happens if you do
{{{ failed_changes }}}

Rendering | Volkov Labs

[calvinnisson]

@yosiasz

{{{ failed_changes }}}

Rendering | Volkov Labs

Unfortunately, the appearance does not change for me with this

[yosiasz]

this is odd but it is a known issue

this one works

<div>

  {{ data.0.failed_changes }}
  
</div>

vs this one does not work

<div>
  {{ data.0.failed_changes }}  
</div>

[calvinnisson]

It appears to be working now, though interestingly in addition to this I also had to have the “wrap automatically in paragraphs” option enabled as well, without that it wasn’t working either.

Thanks!

[calvinnisson]

Actually, I apologize for bringing this up again - but is there a different type of formatting for markdown with Business Text?

For the following markdown (which from my markdown understanding and validating online should work how I expected it to with separating out newlines and keep my bolding):
**Description:** N/A <br /> **Start:** 2025-04-03 <br /> **End:** 2025-04-04 ---

I receive:

I’ve also tried this with extra spaces, slashes, and newline characters but nothing appears to solve the issue. Sometimes I’ll get the newlines, but I lose the bolding or sometimes it just bolds the entire thing.

[yosiasz]

please read this

Rendering | Volkov Labs