Payload updates, notifications, and code editor improvements in Business Forms 2.7.0

We are happy to announce the release of the Data Manipulation panel 2.7.0. This release includes the following updates:

• Includes community-requested updates for the payload.
• Updated request parameters.
• Grafana-style success/error notifications.
• The code editor for the initial and update requests was improved with suggestions for variables and parameters.

We are impressed by the ever-growing number of use cases from the community and look forward to receiving more feedback and enhancing the plugin.

Data Manipulation panel allows you to enter and edit all kinds of data.

Getting Started

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

Install Business Suite plugins in Cloud, OSS, Enterprise. Getting started with the Business Suite.

For the latter, please use the following command:

grafana cli plugins install volkovlabs-form-panel

Tutorial

In this video, Daria provides two examples of what the Business Forms plugin can do and then outline the configuration steps. Towards the end, she emphasizes that the Business Forms panel can be created dynamically or, in other words, as a code with a reference where you can get copy-paste examples.

The powerful Business Forms panel 4.1.0 Overview.

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 9.2.2 (#113).
• Update CI to upload signed artifacts (#116).
• Allowed the passing of all or updated only values within the payload (#116).
• Added the Initial values parameter into the Update Request parameters (#117).
• Added the output of status notifications after the form submittal (#98).
• Added suggestions in Monaco Code Editor for available parameters (#88).

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