Dashboard selector for multiple variables

Question

I am building a weather station Dashboard which contains a map with external links to a variety of different weather stations from various sources. Each station has a unique combination of variables such as precipitation, temperature, relative humidity, etc.

I built the main table which contains a column for each weather variable and then assigned TRUE or FALSE for each variable at each station.

For example, Station 1 has only wind + temperature, Station 2 has precipitation + temp + RH, Station 3 has only wind + RH.

I would like to add a selector to my Dashboard which would allow me to only show the weather stations with a specific variable (or ideally the option to select multiple variables) so that if I selected Wind, it would only show stations with wind (Station 1 and 3 from the example above).

I have also tried concatenating the variables into a single field but so far haven't had any success. In this case, Station 1 has the variable "wind, temp", Station 2 is "precip, temp, rh" and Station 3 is "wind, rh". I was told to use the "contains" option but this does not appear to be available on the selector options, only seems to be an option in the filter menu.

Nicole_Ueberschär · Answer

Hello @rbuhler !

I was coming to your post because I am looking for a solution for a similar problem as yours.

The idea with the buttons in the side panel is already great, thanks for that!

But I am stuck now at the configuration. I also have only 1 for true and 0 for false in my categories. I am trying to use the Defined Values option with only using one category(=1) but I am not able to unselect it like it looks in your screenshot above (see filled buttons in my screenshot). Did you ever make it work as desired? I would like it to look like your list or for my list the option down but without the None option. I just want to be able to click on a button and do the selection and if I click again on the button it should be unselected. But maybe that's just not possible...

jcarlson · Answer

That makes sense. Unfortunately, until Dashboards implements a contains filter, I don't know if this is possible. I can think of a few things that might be worth attempting, but they're really hacky and maybe won't work.

How is the selector being used, by the way? Is it filtering other non-spatial widgets, or is it interacting with a map? That will make a difference, too.

rbuhler · Answer

Thank you for your response. I agree that having a selector for each is the simplest solution. I suppose my main interest in grouping them was saving space since I had identified nine weather variables and I already have other selectors for Station Type and Elevation so the side bar is already half full. I suppose I could move the Station Type selecotr to the header and move forward with selectors for each weather variable in the sidebar.