Business Forms

announcement

The Data Manipulation panel joins the Business Suite for Grafana and with that gets an elevated name. Now, the same amazing open source plugin is called the Business Forms panel.

Please welcome the new name for the same functionality!

The Data Manipulation panel now is called the Business Forms panel.

The Business Forms Panel is a conceptually new plugin for Grafana. It is the first plugin that allows inserting and updating application data, as well as modifying configuration directly from your Grafana dashboard.

The powerful Business Forms panel 4.1.0 Overview.

Requirements

• Business Forms Panel 4.X requires Grafana 10 or Grafana 11.
• Data Manipulation Panel 3.X requires Grafana 9 or Grafana 10.
• Data Manipulation Panel 2.X requires Grafana 9 or Grafana 8.5.
• Data Manipulation Panel 1.X requires Grafana 8.

Getting Started

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

For the latter, please use the following command:

grafana-cli plugins install volkovlabs-form-panel

Highlights

• Provides functionality to create customizable forms.
• Supports custom code for initial and update requests.
• Supports API requests, including the GET request to get initial values and the DELETE, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests to send values updated in the form.
• Allows adding request headers to initial and update requests.
• Supports customization of the Submit and Reset buttons as well as the form layout.
• Allows splitting form elements into sections.
• Allows requesting the user's confirmation before running an update request.
• Allows sending all or only updated elements in the request payload.
• Allows displaying success and error notifications through custom code.
• Supports suggestions for available parameters when writing program code in the code editor.

Data Manipulation Panel for Grafana.

Documentation

Section	Description
Data Flow	Explains the data flow and its specifics.
Form Elements	Explains the specifics of form elements.
REST API	Explains the REST API architecture and how to use NGINX.
Custom Code	Explains how to access plugin options, API responses, form elements, and Grafana services.
Features	Explains the plugin features.
Servers	Provides examples of API server implementations.
Release Notes	Stay up to date with the latest features and updates.

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License

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.