Though my issue is dashboard links to another dashboard, not data links to the same dashboard, our “all selected values” of a multi-value variable would also solve the issue I’m running into I mention here.
It’d also be useful to have a hidden variable that auto-selects to ‘all’ but expands it as a multi-value variable. (example: VM focused dashboard, links to host focused dashboard, name of host(s) is a hidden variable based on the VM(s) selected. As-is it looks like it just selects the first available value in the dropdown.)
my issue: