Context Selector in Dashboard does not show initial context values

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

In Dashboard Designer I have created a Context Selector.

This Context Selector sets a couple of parameters, and I have set a default value for these parameters:

 

When the dashboard loads, it displays the appropriate data based on these parameter values, but the context selectors do not show the values which are selected, so the end user does not know what the defaults are:

 

Is it possible to have the context selector display the initial/default values?

Resolution

This is not currently possible due to the design of context selectors.

Essentially, the context selector "sets" the parameters but does not "read" them.  

The initial context that appears in the dashboard is a function of the parameters having default values, but the context selector itself doesn't actually ever store what those values are, and from the selector's point of view, when the dashboard initially loads, the selected context is "none" until a choice is made using the selector.

When you select new values using the context selector, the parameters are updated, but the context selector itself does not read these values, it only sets them.

As a workaround, you can add a Text widget near the context selector of type "String" and use a variable:   ${parameter name}