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How I can enter multiple values in textbox variable in grafan and use it for repeate

I have a use case where I want to enter multiple order nubers in text box in grafan, comma selerated, and have multiple queries get diffrent info for thsoe orders. I want to user repeate option of Row so if I enter order1, order2,order3 in text filed I get 3 row each with info I pull using queries across multiple DB. enter image description here

I tried custom formatting no luck

Solution

  • This cannot be done with Tex box variables: their content is treated as a single value. But for repetition to work, variable should have multiple different values.

    You need a variable of type Query or Custom with enabled Multi-select option.

    If you cannot predefine list of orders for selection on dashboard creation (thus use of Custom is not possible), and total list of all orders is to large to be useful (thus making Query less than ideal), you might (depending on data source in use) employ a workaround: keep your current variable as is, but also add one more variable of type Query with multi-select option enabled. Use query, that will create this second variable only with orders listed in your original variable.

    Then your user will be required to input list of orders (as it's done now), and after that tick "Selected" in second variable twice to select all.

    This second variable can be used for repetition as expected by Grafana.