Hello, I know it is not supported, but can anybody help me with a some workaround? I need to select a tag in a influxDB query according to the ${__user.id}. But the tag is something like ‘server1’. I was thinking of having variable userid1name = server1, that would be evaluated from ${userid${__use…

[image] ushi: Actually this sometimes work, some times does not. Under which conditions it does not work? Do you also have a userid in InfluxDB as a tag?

let’s define variables: ${__user.id} value is 24 ${userid24name} value is server1 It always works in influxDB query - it is always correctly evaluated from “${userid${__user.id}name}” to “server1” variable value However in other occassions like panel title, pane description, transformation expr…

It works only in InfluxDB queries, it does not work for panel title, panel description, transformation expressions, querry expressions. I cannot use userid itself as a tag, because I need to select more tags with one userid. Thanks for your help

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ushi November 7, 2024, 10:19am 5

This “really ugly workaround” helped me to solve the problem with nesting variable ${__user.id}: Access to the value of a custom variable key:value from another custom variable value - #6 by sowdenraymond

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