Search improvements, persistent mode, and compatibility updates in Business Variable 2.3.1

We are happy to announce the release of the Variable panel 2.3.1. This release includes the following updates:

• Added the feature to automatically clear Search values after switching tabs.
• Added the Persistent mode.
• Added compatibility with Grafana 10.2.2 and Grafana 10.3.0 (pre-release).

Number of downloads

The Variable plugin shoots for the stars and is very close to 100K downloads! 👏

Variable panel was downloaded almost 100K times.

Clear Search values after switching tabs

This feature is applicable when your Variable panel displays multiple tabs.

In the example below, the variable panel displays two tabs: Location and Country. When a user clicks a funnel icon and types in the Search values, only the nodes containing, in this example, 5 are shown.

Next, if this user switches to the Country tab, the Search values are cleared and no filters are applied.

That means that when a user changes tabs, all previous Search values are removed.

Clear Search value on a tab change feature.

The same rule applies to the Favorites. The Show only favorites filter is cleared when a user switches to another tab.

Clear Only Favorites on a tab change feature.

Persistent Mode

This feature is applicable when Variable configured in Minimized and Button layouts. This mode could be turned on and off in the Variable panel options.

Enable/Disable the Persistent mode.

When Enabled, the selected values are stored in the browser's local storage. It comes in handy when one variable panel is controlled by the other variable panel.

For instance, in the illustration below, I have two variable panels. One displays countries and the other one displays states within the selected country. I chose USA in the first panel and then IL on the other panel.

Depending on the Persistent option value set for the State variable panel, the selected value is either saved in the browser for future use or not.

Persistent option allows to keep the selected values in the browser's local cache.

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

Bugfixes in 2.3.1

• Fix draggable icon for Grafana 10.3 (#107)

Features / Enhancements in 2.3.0

• Add clean table state on tab change (#101)
• Update ESLint configuration and refactor (#102)
• Add persistent mode (#103)
• Update to Grafana 10.2.2 and Volkov labs packages (#104)

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