First community release of Business Variable 1.4.0

We are happy to announce the first community-signed version of Business Variable panel 1.4.0. This release includes the following updates:

• Added a Favorite icon to filter selected favorites.
• Added Tree View groups to provide location, configuration, manufacturer, etc. selections in the same panel.
• Added auto-scroll to the selected value when the panel loads.
• Added an option to display the variable name in front of the value.
• Updated Sticky scrollbar to support Grafana 9.
• Increased Test coverage to 99%.

Grafana Catalog

The plugin was updated in the Grafana Plugins catalog on July 7, 2023.

Favorites

The variable panel allows selecting values as favorites, which are stored in the Web browser's storage and are unique for each user.

The new favorite icon in the header allows you to filter all selected favorites for quick navigation and selection.

Selected values are unique for each user and stored in the Web browser's storage.

Tree View groups

Multiple tree view groups allow selecting variables based on location, configuration, manufacturer, etc.

Each group has its level configuration and is based on the data from the data frames. Levels from the data frame should have the same name as the variable.

An additional option to display the variable name in front of the value can be enabled to provide additional context for the users.

Groups consist of levels with the same names as variables.

Test Coverage

For developing our plugins we use continuous integration with 80+% test coverage to make sure that any changes won't break existing functionality. We talked about it in our developing panel plugins series.

The variable panel has 99% test coverage.

Getting Started

The Business Variable panel can be installed from the Grafana Catalog or utilizing the Grafana command line tool.

Install Business Suite plugins in Cloud, OSS, Enterprise. Getting started with the Business Suite.

For the latter, please use the following command.

grafana cli plugins install volkovlabs-variable-panel

Tutorial

This video reviews the latest features introduced in Business Variable 3.0.0.

Daria demonstrates many new options for the Minimize mode, such as

• allow empty value,
• allow custom values,
• maximum visible values.

For the Table mode, she explains how to display total and selected counts. Further, Daria introduces a Slider mode and touches upon the TreeView layout improvements and advanced features.

New features and updates in Business Variable 3.0.0.

For the all plugin options overview, please refer the other video.

Variable Panel for Grafana. New features and updates in 2.3.1.

We have many other tutorials that you can find helpful. You can review all related to this plugin tutorials here.

Release Notes

Features / Enhancements

• Add Tutorial (#21)
• Update adding new Level to last (#22)
• Hide unselectable items (#24)
• Use the main view scroll element to support Grafana 9 (#26)
• Add a Favorite icon to filter selected favorites (#25)
• Add Tree View groups. Requires to update Tree View configuration. (#20)
• Add an option to display the variable name in front of the value (#30)
• Increase tests coverage (#31)
• Add auto scroll to the selected value (#32)
• Community signed release (#37)

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