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Business Variable

The Business Variable panel builds on top of the regular dashboard variables. It allows you to have dashboard filters in a separate panel, which you can place anywhere on the dashboard.

Button

In the Button display mode, you get horizontally positioned variable values looking like buttons. Optionally, you can set up color-coding rules in the Thresholds category on the right.

Data Flow

To get a glimpse under the hood, please review the following comparison.

Display mode

The Business Variable panel enhances dashboard variables by making them more user-friendly and allowing to place the panel anywhere on the dashboard.

Features

The Business Variable panel provides an extensive set of features.

Input Text Box

The input text box is supported in the Table and Minimize display modes.

Key-values format in Variables

A Grafana variable can be composed of a key and value to make it possible to join data sets by IDs(key) while displaying user-friendly names(value). The Business Variable panel supports this feature in all modes.

Minimize

Select Minimize if you plan to have the native select look and need to place it anywhere on your dashboard.

Slider

The Business Variable panel supports the Slider display mode starting from version 3.0.0.

Sort by Status

You can allow users to sort the Business Variable panel values based on the data retrieved from the data source.

Table

The Table mode provides many variations, from the simplest basic single variable view to the most loaded TreeView.

Tutorials

New features and updates in Business Variable 3.0.0