Widget item value and multiline

[MichaBl78]

Hi to everyone.
I'm new to Zabbix and wanted to say, great tool.

My question is about the widget item value and multiline support.
I do an external check which has multiline values as result.
My goal is to show this values on a dashboard.
To name it: I want to show vlan ids and their names in a kind of table.

Something like this:

VlanID Name
10 PCs
20 Servers
...

My first approach is to get the values by an external check and deliver them to Zabbix as text.
If I do the check in the item definition site it shows me a a good result (There are multilines).
Now at the dashboard site I added a widget (Item value) and placed my item value in it.
The values show up but there is no line break. So there is only a sinle line of information.
I guessed that I need to do someting with LF or CRLF, also tried something like <br> ... No line breaks.
What do I do wrong?
Also this is maybe the wrong approach. I think it would be better to return something like an array and put it in some kind of table, if possible.
Any thoughts about this?

Thanks
Micha

[swpyatt]

Try using item history and switch it to HTML. Then you can use <br> and other HTML markups.

[MichaBl78]

Thanks, good idea.