Documentation Plugins Business Forms Features Variables

Variables

Business Forms automatically replaces dashboard and global variables in the following elements:

• URLs for initial and update requests
• Header parameter values
• Update request payloads
• JavaScript code
• Section names (starting from version 4.9.0)
• Form element labels (starting from version 4.9.0)
• Button text (starting from version 4.9.0)

Three types of variables are thoroughly explained in the Grafana Crash Course.

JavaScript code

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const formIcon = context.panel.elements.find(
  (element) => element.id === "icon"
);
formIcon.value = "$IconVar";

Synchronize with dashboard variables

For information about how Business Forms works with dashboard variables, refer to this blog post.

The following video covers the same content.