Is it possible to select from dropdown in YADA?

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I am playing with dash-yada. When I look through the code I see the possible actions are click, dblclick, sendKeys, type. I am trying to find a way to make yada select from a dropdown. I know the particular value will always be there. I know the value will always be the last one in the options. I thought maybe I could do a ‘type’ action with the value I want as the ‘action_args’ but I could not get that to work. Is it possible to have yada select a value from a dropdown? If so, how?

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Hello @Brent,

Yes, it is possible.

You’ll need to chain together a few actions:

1 - activate the dropdown, this can be a click.

2 - then select from the dropdown, this will also be a click.

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I tried this among other things but it does not do anything.

{‘target’: f"#{CLUSTER_PREFIX}new-region-dd",
‘convo’: “”“I will activate the dropdown by clicking on it.”“”,
‘action’: ‘click’},
{‘target’: f"#{CLUSTER_PREFIX}new-region-dd .value",
‘convo’: “”“I will select new”“”,
‘action’: ‘click’,
‘action_args’: ‘new’},

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If you can give an example app, that would be helpful. :slight_smile:

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Minimal dash program."""

from dash import Dash, dcc
import dash_bootstrap_components as dbc
from dash_yada import YadaAIO

app = Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=[dbc.themes.BOOTSTRAP])

scripts = {'my_script': [{'target': '#dropdown',
                          'convo': """
                          This is a dropdown.
                          """},
                         {'target': '#dropdown',
                          'convo': """
                          activate dropdown
                          """,
                          'action': 'click'},
                         {'target': '#dropdown',
                          'convo': """
                          select from dropdown
                          """,
                          'action': 'click'}
                         ]}
yada = YadaAIO(yada_id="my_yada", scripts=scripts)

app.layout = dbc.Container([yada,
                            dcc.Dropdown(id='dropdown',
                                         options=['first',
                                                  'second',
                                                  'new'],
                                         value='first')],
                           fluid=True)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(debug=True)