Grafana 10, increased test coverage, and options updates in Business Calendar 1.4.0

We are happy to announce the release of the Business Calendar panel 1.4.0. This release includes the following updates:

• Tested the plugin on Grafana 10 Preview.
• Added the text formatting, mappings, and overrides.
• Removed the unused standard options.
• Increased the event spacing to prevent overlapping.
• Increased the test coverage and added the end-to-end test workflow.
• Migrated the plugin to Plugin Tools 1.5.2 with Node.js 18 and npm.

Grafana Catalog

The plugin was updated in the Grafana Plugins catalog on June 15, 2023.

Standard Options

Units, value mappings, and overrides are all supported in the Event text field. All unnecessary standard options, such as minimal and maximal values, were deprecated.

Units, value mappings, and overrides are supported in Business Calendar panel.

Getting Started

You can install the Business Calendar panel plugin from the Grafana Plugins catalog or use the Grafana command line tool.

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For the latter, please use the following command:

grafana cli plugins install marcusolsson-calendar-panel

Tutorial

This video is a detailed review of all configurable options. To ensure you can follow, Daria starts with fetching publicly available Grafana plugin catalog data and then demonstrates how the Business Calendar plugin options change the panel appearance and behavior.

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We have many other tutorials that you can find helpful. You can review all related to this plugin tutorials here.

Release Notes

Features / Enhancements

• Added compatibility with Grafana 9.5.2 (#96, #101).
• Added the text formatting, mappings, and overrides (#97).
• Remove the unused standard options (#97).
• Increased the test coverage and updated the testing library (#100, #103).
• Migrated to Plugin Tools 1.5.2 (#101).
• Updated the plugin to Node.js 18 (#101).
• Integrated E2E Cypress into the testing cycle (#102).

Bug fixes

• Increased the event spacing to prevent the overlapping (#96).

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