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For my specific case i would prefer the description dimension and structure the information as a long plain text. But i really think the labels would make sense too. E.g. when planning changes on different stages like prod/dev/test or the change is related to a specific third party vendor.

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Had a go at this. Would something like this work for you?

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Available in v0.3.0 🚀 Please try it and and let me know how it can be improved!

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This is an interesting feature. I think the main challenge is how to configure this without adding too many new dimensions. I think I'd like to understand how people will use these features first. Could you share some more details on your use case?

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We would like to add a upcoming IT changes calender in our grafana environment. Right now we store information about start date, end date, title and addition information in a mariadb. The additional information is stored in one field, so maybe there has only one dimension to be added.

The additional information includes:

• Change Responsibles (functional and technical coordinator)
• Description
• Affected Services
• Effects of the change
• Ticket system id

I think it would be sufficient if there will be a popup or mouseover when selecting a specific calender entry to show the additional information stored in the datasource field

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In my other plugins I have a "Labels" dimension where you can select multiple fields to display as generic badges. Here's an example:

It's not very structured, but could be enough to display metadata in a generic way.

Along with a Description dimension for longer texts, I think we could cover a lot of different use cases. WDYT?

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Looks really great! Does the longer description support linebreaks for better structuring?

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How would you like to define the line breaks? \n? Maybe consider supporting Markdown in the description text?

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Good question. I dont know what grafana exactly supports at this point out of the box. In my case i can manipulate the input field, so doesn´t really matter if just "\n" or "</ br>" or markdown. I think the final approach depends on the future needs of other users

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Thank you very much for your fast support! I upgraded to 0.3 and testet it out. Unfortunatly it didn´t get the linebreaks work for me neither \n nor
was working for me. Or did i miss something?

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I decided to publish this without support for line breaks for now to gather more feedback. I created an issue for this here #11.

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