Generating a Dropdown in a Dataiku App Using the Python Do Function

Mattsco

Sometimes you want to dynamically generate a custom dropdown in your application. It could be using the values from a dataset column or using the six last month's values from today.

You can actually do this using the "edit project variable" tile of a Dataiku application.

Click on "Use custom UI" below the input for auto-generated controls, you'll see you have an input to add a python code.

The python function should look like this:

def do(payload, config, plugin_config, inputs):
  choices = [
    { "value" : "val1", "label" : "Value 1"},
    { "value" : "val2", "label" : "Value 2"}
  ]
  return {"choices": choices}

Note: If you load a dataset from it, don't forget to mention the project key as each app instance has its own project key.

Then in the auto-generated controls, you must specify the choices has been generated from the python:

  [
  {
    "type": "SELECT",
    "name": "variable_name",
    "getChoicesFromPython": true
  }
]

You can use SELECT or MULTISELECT for the types.

Check these screenshots to see an example where I wanted to update a project variable to filter a dataset according to one of the country codes available in the input dataset.

Fig 1: You use a filter recipe, filtering on columns using a project variable value.

Fig 2: Use the custom UI in Edit project variable tile of a Dataiku App to write the python do function.

Fig 3: That’s it you have made an App where the dropdown to select the country is generated from a dataset.

iankush

Hi, Thanks for sharing this information. I am also performing the similar operation but instead of reading the dataset, i am reading the list of scenarios in my project.

I have a query on how can I fetch the value from the drop down which the user selects and trigger the same scenario in the project. Can you provide some guidance on it?

Erwan

Thanks,

could you please elaborate on the parameters used in the do function ?

What is the expected type ? What is the meaning ?

MickaelH

Erwan

Nov 7, 2024

Thanks,

could you please elaborate on the parameters used in the do function ?

What is the expected type ? What is the meaning ?

Hi,

The easiest would be to print the parameters as their content/definition depends on the context of where the dynamic select is defined and monitor the corresponding logs (could be backend.log or the job logs, … again depending on the context.

Here is a brief description of the parameters :

• payload : provided by the javascript.
  • In custom forms : the user can set it and give it any value.
  • In autoconfig-form-element: it will have the values for :
    • parameterType
    • parameterName
    • customChoices
• config : list of all parameters and their value
• plugin config : list of all parameters of the plugin and their value
• inputs : if we are inside a recipe, the list of the inputs of the recipe. Empty in all other cases.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Mickaël | R&D at Dataiku

MickaelH

iankush

Oct 10, 2024

Hi, Thanks for sharing this information. I am also performing the similar operation but instead of reading the dataset, i am reading the list of scenarios in my project.

I have a query on how can I fetch the value from the drop down which the user selects and trigger the same scenario in the project. Can you provide some guidance on it?

Hi,

Are you also in the context of a Dataiku application ? If yes you mean using the previously selected value in a scenario that can be triggered in the form ?

If it's indeed the context of your question the selected values will be set a project's local variables. You can access them in the scenario as any project variable.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Mickaël | R&D at Dataiku