feat: allow custom templates

[jkroepke]

Fixed #19

[PAPAMICA]

Good work !

I need this feature, can you merge please?

Have a nice day!

[mahendrapaipuri]

@PAPAMICA Cheers for your interest. If I may ask, what exactly you would like to override in the default template? This helps us to better design this feature.

We are in the process doing a huge refactor of the plugin so it will take a while before we can merge this. I have just relaunched CI and you should be able to get plugin artifacts after the CI run to use for your deployment if you need it right away.

[vlzobov]

@mahendrapaipuri We're also interested in this feature. Team wants to use plugin, but wants report with customized styles and format.

As example one of the requirements: each row with it's panels should be on separate report page. (I'm not sure that is even possible, but that's what team want.)

As you mentioned a huge refactor, so when we can expect to have next release?

[jkroepke]

huge refactor

#52 - At least the refactoring is already in review.

[mahendrapaipuri]

As example one of the requirements: each row with it's panels should be on separate report page. (I'm not sure that is even possible, but that's what team want.)

This sort of fine grained control can be hard to achieve. As of now, I dont see a lot of value in allowing the custom template for the "body" of the report. The core plugin will fetch all the dashboard panels and estimate the coordinates of each panel in the report according to chosen config.

We can easily allow the users to customize the header and footer of the report but the body, I dont see a easy way. @jkroepke Do you have any ideas?

Regarding #52, I will look into it this weekend. Cheers!!

[jkroepke]

Do you have any ideas?

tbh. This PR is my idea. Expose the go templates as "expert only" feature and make them configurable. Maybe we do not have use cases for it but users may have use-cases which is valid. For example custom CSS/JS, special borders what ever.

There is no reason of not offering features.

[vlzobov]

Are custom templates already allowed in 1.5.0 release? If not, are you planning to include it next release?

[mahendrapaipuri]

Hey @vlzobov no not yet. I am waiting to merge a security related PR before working on template customization. I am waitin for upstream Grafana to make few changes for the PR to work.

[mahendrapaipuri]

Hello @vlzobov Please check the main branch which supports custom templates now. I will make a release next week.