Text Visualization

The text visualization in query steps is different from the text step. A text step is a top level item in a workbook, and supports replacing parameters in the content, and allows for error/warning styling.

The text visualization is similar to the Azure Data Explorer render card behavior, where the first cell value returned by the query (and only the first cell value: row 0, column 0) is displayed in the visualization.

The text visualization has a style setting to change the style of the text displayed in the workbook.

Text styles

The following text styles are available for text steps:

Style	Explanation
plain	No other formatting is applied. The text value is presumed to be plain text and no special formatting is applied.
header	The text is formatted with the same styling as step headers.
bignumber	The text is formatted in the "big number" style used in Tile and Graph based visualizations.
markdown	The text value is rendered in a markdown section. Any markdown content in the text content is interpreted as such and used for formatting.
editor	The text value is displayed in an editor control, respecting newlines, tab formatting.

Examples

Given a query that returns text in a cell, showing in the standard grid visualization:

You can see that this query returned a single column of data, which appears to be a very long string. In all examples, the query step has the same header set.

Plain example

When the visualization is set to Text and the Plain style is selected, the text appears as a standard portal text block:

Text wraps, and any special formatting values are displayed as is, with no formatting.

Header example

Text is displayed in the same style as step headers.

Big Number example

Text is displayed in big number style.

Markdown example

For the markdown example, the query response is adjusted to have markdown formatting elements inside. Without any markdown formatting in the text, the display is similar to the plain style.

Editor example:

For the editor example, newline \n and tab \t characters were added to the text to create multiple lines.

Notice how in this example, the editor has horizontal scrollbar, indicating that some of the lines in this text are wider than the control.