Support auto-refresh of filters with page refresh

[jhiza]

By saving a template to elastic search and then examining the json stored there, I now can see how the filter lists work. Basically I'm trying to combine the scripted template capabilities (for using the same template with url parameters controlling the changing pieces) with the filtering capabilities.

The end goal is that:

• a user clicks on a link that then renders a dynamic template
• filter options are pre-populated (via the same way the app does it, filter module and the applyFilter(filter) function.
  BONUS:
• if changing a filter parameter also updates the URL in the browser for the dynamically changed element.

It's a goal to not have elastic search as a part of this at all. If there is some code that I can put in my template.js file to dynamically retrieve a filter list, that would be great. I'm not a JS expert, hence my question.

current hack:
dashboard.services.filter = {
time: {
from: "now-" + (ARGS.from || timspan),
to: "now"
},
list: [
{
type: "filter",
name: "table_name",
query: "apps.database.[[table_name]].*",
includeAll: true,
current: {
text: tableName,
value: tableName
}
}

]
};

How to dynamically populate list elements via dashboard?

[jippi]

formatted code from above:

dashboard.services.filter = {
    time: {
        from: "now-" + (ARGS.from || timspan),
        to: "now"
    },
    list: [
        {
            type: "filter",
            name: "table_name",
            query: "apps.database.[[table_name]].*",
            includeAll: true,
            current: {
                text: tableName,
                value: tableName
            }
        }
    ]
}

[jhiza]

Thanks for the reformat.

Basically I'd like to dynamically load the options section.

[torkelo]

changed title of issue to better reflect what is required. It is kind of tricky as all of the places when filters are applied to queries need to be async (as the first time will require the options be fetched from graphite). But should relatively easy.

[jhiza]

Updated the title. ideally the query defined for the list type would be the value called.

Thanks!

[jhiza]

Any plans for this feature soon?

[torkelo]

Not within this month, maybe some time in august. On vacation now. Back in August, working full time on grafana!

[torkelo]

Seems to work ok in master.

{
        "type": "query",
        "name": "app",
        "query": "apps.*",
        "includeAll": true,
        "options": [],
        "current": {
          "text": "All",
          "value": "*"
        },
        "datasource": null,
        "allFormat": "wildcard",
        "refresh": true
      },

Notice the new refresh option.