# Variable reference is not working

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-reference-is-not-working/133928>\
**Category:** Dashboards\
**Created:** [October 10, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-reference-is-not-working/133928 "2024-10-10T00:11:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![runnand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@runnand](https://community.grafana.com/u/runnand)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-reference-is-not-working/133928/1 "2024-10-10T00:11:26Z")

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- What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?  
11.2.0

- **What** are you trying to achieve?  
Creating a custom variable called “StoreId2”; Call other custom variable by using ${var:csv}

- **How** are you trying to achieve it?

- What happened?  

- What did you **expect** to happen?  
I expect sca\_d1 and sca\_d2 can be two option be selected in variable StoreId2; when select one of variable, multiple

- Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?  
Configuration show in picture.

- Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us **exactly** what they were.  
No

- Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?