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Hi Daniel It is currently not possible to use your own fonts in Dashboards or Low Code Apps (not in the themes & not in the web component). There are also no tasks on our backlog to add this feature....

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Hi Ashwini, Or filtering is not possible using the 'Contains' filter method. You can achieve your desired result using the 'Regex' method. For example: '^(WoutMH|Test Element 1)$' will show all elements...

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Hi Martin There is currently no easy way to update/delete an image from within Dashboards/Low Code Apps itself. It can safely be deleted from C:\Skyline DataMiner\dashboards\_IMAGES, this will have to...

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Hi, The login form of our web apps indeed has ids change every time the page is loaded. I'm not familiar with CyberArk, but using the documentation link you provided I noticed that you should be able...

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Hi Tim, It is possible to feed multiple query rows at once from a table and use this as a script input. You can configure an action to execute a script on a header bar button, a button component or use...

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Hi Jim, You can link the output of the automation script back to the Low Code app via the 'Script outputs' feed of the button used to execute the script. This feed represents key-value pairs where the...

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Hi Joshua It is not possible to move components between pages and panels. What you can do starting from 10.4.12 is using the new flows. These allow you to make use of multiple different data objects...

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Hi Enver, This is possible using the latest version of LCA. You can configure the panel with feeds from both the table & node-edge component. To make sure that the correct data is displayed when a...

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Hi Miguel Case 1 & 2 are both possible for markers, but noy yet for lines: Because each marker is a template, the template editor can be used to configure actions to execute on a shape level. This...

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Hi Jim, This sounds like a perfect case for the grid component, available out of softlaunch from 10.4.1 onwards. You can link a query to the grid component that fetches the rows from the parameter table...

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Hi Mieke, If this column is a string column, you can use a regex filter method to act as an 'OR' filter. Other than this workaround, there are no 'OR' conditions in GQI.

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Hi Yuki, Currently, the color of the button component cannot be dynamically changed. To achieve your use case in a different way, you could make use of a grid component. The component makes use of query...

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Hi Arie-Jan Thanks for providing the additional info. I see that you are currently using version 10.3.0 for both Server & Web. On the docs page for the ping monitoring app, I found that the minimum...

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Hi Mieke Passing all selected rows to the script is currently only possible when linking to the 'Tables' type (formerly known as 'query rows'). The 'Object manager instance' type will only fill in the...

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Hi Miloš, Depending of the version of your web apps, this can be done in 2 ways:  Before table cell templates: < 10.4.1 You can configure an action on the table to execute via a 'Text hyperlink'....

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Hi Vikas, The default layout for a PDF export of a dashboard has the 'Stack components' option enabled. Disabling this option will position the components as you see on the dashboard. Disabling the option...

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Hi Leander, The behavior you encountered is a known limitation of the GQI templates. Currently it is not possible to configure templates for data coming from a feed, only the default template can be used....

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Hi Andrew, There is currently no option to 'freeze' a table column just as with Excel. If you want this, you can open a feature suggestion. If this topic gets enough support, we can consider putting it...

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Hi Mieke, To filter the data in your table, you can link the time range component as a feed to the query. To do this, you will need to add 2 filter nodes to user the 'From' and 'To' feeds of the time...

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Hi Dieter, This is definitely possible using the 'Line & area chart' component. To display the lines using different colors, you have to customize the component theme. In the theme you can choose...

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Hi Marco The Web component doesn't have a restriction on http vs https. It only enforces the use of https when the LCA itself is visited using https (which we highly recommend). When using https, most...

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Hi Alija It should be no problem to add multiple independent trigger components to a page or panel. What happens exactly when you try adding a new trigger component? If it doesn't show up on the page,...

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Hi Carlos, Are you seeing this when using the exact same query on both the dashboard & in the LCA? GQI has 2 different ways of updating data that depend on the used data source & operators in...

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Hi Wale It is not possible to hide this filter, without modifying your data. It is shown because the underlying 'MCR Status' column is a discrete column with numeric values. You could modify this column...

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Hi Baranisudha This can be achieved using Table templates. These templates allows you to style any table cell the way you want and to create actions and conditions based on the data. To learn more about...

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Hi Davor I see that you are using a GQI query for your use case. You can configure this in a few steps: Add a line & area chart component and time range component to the dashboard. Create query...

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Hi Dario You are indeed seeing different visualizations because of the different versions. With DataMiner 10.3.0[CU13]/10.4.0[CU1]/10.4.4, we introduced the ability to show the results of a query in a...

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Hi, We have some features in Dashboards & Low Code Apps that make creating custom visuals possible: The web component can be used to create a custom visual. You can link some feeds to insert data...

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Hi John, Currently it is only possible to do this by manipulating the app files themselves, there is no UI for this. You can assign a/multiple section to a LCA following these steps: Locate the app...

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Hi Randy, To display icons in a template, you need to use the icon tool. When you have created a new icon layer/selected an existing icon layer, the icons become available on the right side of the editor.

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Hi Kevin, By default, the cells of a table will not show HTML as HTML. To view this as HTML, the only thing you have to do is to overwrite the cell with a custom template. Even the default template will...

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Hi, This is currently not possible in any of our web apps, the 24-hour format is always used. If you would want us to support this format, you can create a feature request.

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Hi Dieter, You can change the view & edit permissions of a dashboard in the 'settings' while having no component selected. Removing the view restriction should make the dashboard shareable via the...

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Hi Lucas, Can you tell us what version of the web apps you are using? You can find this by clicking on your user icon in the top right & then selecting about. We have fixed an issue with not being...

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Hi Nathan To make sure that the grid templates take the available width, you have to create your template so that it can handle that. This means that you should not lock the width of your background shape...

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Hi Apurva, We have recently improved this behavior with DataMiner 10.4.0[CU12]/10.5.3. From that version onwards, the table will stay at the current scroll position when re-fetching data. There will be...

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Hi Wale, You are only seeing the status filters that would match any data when used. This is because the 'Filter assistance' setting of the query filter is turned on. This setting will notify the component...

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Hi Jens, Components that are using the exact same query will only execute the query once if they request data at the same time. When one of the components would request its data at a later time, eg when...

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Hi Felix, We currently do not have a component that can be used as a kanban board using drag & drop. It is possible to create your own version using DOM, GQI, grid components with templates &...

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Hi Harald This is a correct observation. The 'Feeds' dataset has been retired in favor of 2 new datasets: 'Components' & 'Url'. you can read more about this in a recent blogpost. Functionally, everything...

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Hi Ruben Unfortunately, the scroll position of the grid component will always be reset after a re-fetch in the current software version. I have created a task on our backlog to change this behavior, we...

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Hi Wale, All columns that are retrieved using GQI will be available in the feed. If they are filtered out using a 'select' node, they are not in the query result and thus not in the feed. To achieve your...

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Hi Geovanny Generating a PDF is process with multiple steps, one of which is stitching the different parts together using the ComposePDF call you found. While it is technically possible to create all...

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Hi Felix It is currently not possible to link a dummy to a script action using a feed, this only works for parameters. I have create a task on our backlog to implement this As a workaround you could...

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Hi Miguel Showing the different alarm levels underneath the parameter like this is currently not possible in the web version of Monitoring. I have created a task on our backlog to align this with Cube.

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Hi Kévin, It is currently not possible to customize the group headers of grouped rows. Table templates are only supported for normal rows. We have already received a feature task to support your use...

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Hi Gerwin, Your expectations make a lot of sense and this is also what we want the behavior to be in the future. At the moment we have some cases where 1 row could represent multiple DOM instances, elements,...

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Hi Reinout To show images in a template, you can indeed use the text shape with some HTML code inside. In my example here I used a static image with a fixed width & height, but these can also be linked...

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Hi Marco, You can use a 'navigate to url' action with feed linking for this. Inside the url, you can use the feed values from the dropdown and text inputs. Here is an example that will navigate to google...

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Hi Mauro, The 'Fetch the data' action is completed when the data is done fetching. The issue you are having is that the reselection of the table rows hasn't happened yet. This means that the 'query rows'...

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Hi Yahya, There is a 'Rename column' custom operator available on the catalog that can be used for this. An other option would be to rename the column using a 'concatenate' column manipulation with...

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Hi Tim, This is achievable by adding  query column as a Group to a dashboard component. The columns of a query can be found by clicking the expander in front of the query name. This grouping will be...

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Hey Mieke, As Robin mentioned, it is possible to use a feed in the Web component. This can be used together with the Script outputs feed from the button component to dynamically change the URL based on...

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Hi Gerwin, Currently this is not possible when using GQI data on a line chart component. We are developing multi-line/multi-axis support for the component as we speak. This, and some other enhancements,...

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Hi Dieter, Sharing a dashboard using the URL will include all the feeds that are currently set in the dashboard as a url parameter. These are included to ensure that everyone that clicks the link gets...

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Hi Wale, Custom dashboard themes are stored in a separate file (C:\Skyline DataMiner\dashboards\Themes.json) that you could include in the package. Be aware that overwriting this file will remove all...

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Hi Bernard, There is no way to increase this timeout. However, recently a fix was done for the issue where a timeout would always be thrown when fetching alarms using GQI took more than 120s. Could this...

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Hi Jens, GQI Ad Hoc Data sources currently do not have a concept of columns with discreet values. When columns can be discreet and their discreet values can be defined in the script, the query will have...

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Hi Ashwiny, The scheduler will only be able to attach public dashboards to an email. Dashboards that are only able to be viewed by specific users/groups are not available in the list. Is this the case...

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Hi Flavio There is currently no way to make sure that all nodes & edges are visible in the viewport of the node edge component. The component bases the viewport size on the size of the component itself,...

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Hi Mieke, This is currently not possible, the web component cannot make use of feeds. It would be interesting to add this to our software in a similar way that you can already use feeds in an URL-action....

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Hi Leander, With the GQI templates it is possible to configure a template to behave as you describe. For this you need to 'lock' the right offset to the amount of pixels/percentage you want. This will...

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Hi, You can easily create such a dashboard with 3 component: First you start with a table component. This table should have a query that retrieves the desired table parameters. You can do this with...

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Hi Apurva, The height of a panel in a LCA can currently not be controlled. This is however something that makes sense in the case of panels as a popup. I have created a task for us to support this, we...

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Hi Apurva, There is no backup created when deleting an LCA, this action is final. You could try looking for an older version of the LCA in 'C:\Skyline DataMiner\System Cache\Web\Backups'. This folder...

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Hi Joshua In DataMiner 10.4.10, there was an issue with the Generic Map component that caused continuous redirects when loading the map config. This caused the component to be blank. We have already fixed...

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Hi Baranisudha You have 2 options to add conditional coloring to a table cell based on the cell value: Conditional coloring: here you can configure different colors for the cell based on different...

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Hi Mieke The Monitoring app currently doesn't have the functionality to open the stream viewer. If you would like us to implement this, you can create a feature suggestion.

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Hi Juan The line chart using GQI queries is not designed to work with discrete values but can work with them as long as their underlying value is a number. In your first screenshot it seems to be working...

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Hi Wale, Can you give some more information about the parameter that creates this difference? The monitoring app should display everything in a similar way as in Cube, so this is unexpected.

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Hi Wale, This is something that should happen out-of-the-box. When a table re-fetches it's data, it should return to the rows you were viewing before the fetch started. I can see in your gif that there...

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Hi Sebastian It is currently not possible to access the script output feed from script that were executed in page/panel events. Only the script output feed from a button component can be accessed at the...

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Hi Hari, The 'save current changes' action has 2 different functions depending on the data that is fed to the form: DOM Definition data: the action will create a new DOM instance for the definition...

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Hi Jonas, You can hide the header bar by adding ?embed=true to the url you are using in the web component. There is currently no way to prevent the sidebar with other pages from being displayed. This...

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Hi Enver, This is currently not possible. I have created a task on our backlog to implement a 'conditional actions' feature for a use case like yours.

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Hi Tim, When you want to hide columns in your table, but still need them returned from your query, you can use the 'filter' (orange funnel icon) input on the component to decide what columns to show....

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Hi Lucas, The time range component only has a granularity down to minutes, there is currently no way to make it go down to seconds. The same goes for the inputs in Dashboards & LCA in general. If...

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Hi Jonas, The path input expects the URL of an image, or a path relative to the C:\Skyline DataMiner\Webpages folder (which is also a url). This means that you can link any public image on the web or...

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Hi Jeroen, Currently dashboards has a most of these features available: Customer selection: This can be achieved by creating a query that fetches all possible customers (from DOM or Ad hoc source)....

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Hi Zhing Hang, Unfortunately this cannot be done using a parameter as data in the line chart component. This configuration can be achieved using the same component with queries starting from DataMiner...

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Hi Joshua, There are currently now ways to add single read/write parameters to a Low Code App. Editing parameters is only available for tables using the Parameter Table component.

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Hi kevin, This action is used to set the selection of the table based on the output of a previous actions. It cannot be used to set the default selection of the table (yet). If you want to set a default...

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Hi Jeroen, I'll try to answer all the questions in your post: Is there a way to send emails with the new dashboard reports attached from automation script? => you can send the reports via email...

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Hi Robert, Whether or not the label should be displayed in a minimalized state is determined by the software, this cannot be configured. It looks to all surrounding nodes and labels to see if anything...

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Hi, It is safe to manually delete the entire app folder. Note that this should indeed be done on all DMAs because this delete will NOT be synced during the midnight sync of the cluster. The folder will...

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Hi Seppe, You have encountered a bug with the group component, this is supposed to work. It seems that the group component doesn't work with other components that do not need a data input. I have created...

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Hi Jaroslaw, You cannot do this with a dashboard, but you can with a low code app. This can be done by configuring a template on the column you want to open the popup for. The template should have a shape...

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Hi Sigan, This can be easily done using the grid component. When editing the template of the component, you can use a text shape to display HTML. This shape also allows the insertion of a column values...

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Hi Apurva, You could leverage the DMS callback that allows you to send any SLNet message (see docs). This callback can be used to retrieve all elements using the  'GetLiteElementInfo' message. These...

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Hi David, You can retrieve the full name of the user that is executing the query using the GQIDMS class. The GetUserFullNameMessage can then be used to retrieve the user.

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Hi Yvan, The centers of the markers are used when positioning them on their assigned coordinates. Currently, this behavior is not configurable. You can however create a template for which the center of...

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Hi Marco, It is possible to put files in the C:\Skyline DataMiner\Webpages\public folder. These files will be accessible by visiting https://DMAIP/public/PATH.

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Hi Ross, The output of a script is only available in a LCA when the script is fully done running. If you want to show progress to the user, I would suggest creating an interactive script. This interactive...

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Hi Diogo, The cause of these kind of issues are hard to pinpoint using a short description. I suggest you get into contact with tech support to look further into this issue.

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Hi Henri Can it be that there is no item selected in the dropdown itself? This would mean that the dropdown sends out no data, which in turn causes it to not be visible in the feeds section. This is a...

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Hi Mohannad I can think of a ways to achieve this using 'GetVisioForView' method from the Json or Soap API. This call takes in the connection, viewID, width, height & page of the visio and returns...

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Hi Mahito It is currently not possible to auto-size text to fit the shape in the template. If you want us to implement something like this, you can create a feature suggestion.

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Hi Baranisudha There is currently no way to link a trigger component to a query filter or to let a query filter refresh its data using an action. We have a task on our backlog to implement these features....

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Hi Miguel When you use the query from the query filter as a data input for the grid, this won't be possible. This is because the query filter component is only initialized whenever the panel is opened....

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Hi Juan Can you try visualizing the data from the right graph in a table visualization? This will give you a clear overview of the trend points that the graph is displaying. If no rows are returned from...

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