Layout updatemenus: button not active when opening page (though the correct option was set)

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Hi, I am using the code below to enable the user to choose between two series to see, basically, and even though active=0 is set, the graph keeps showing me both lines at first. Then, when I click on buttons, they do work, but I had interpreted the active option as an init value for the buttons selection. What am I missing?

Thanks.

updatemenus = list([
    dict(type="buttons",
         active=0,
         buttons=list([   
            dict(label = 'First',
                 method = 'update',
                 args = [{'visible': [True, False]}]),
            dict(label = 'Second',
                 method = 'update',
                 args = [{'visible': [False, True]}])
        ]),
    )
])
2

Anyone has a clue on this?

3

Hi there,
active refers to how the button/menus appear (https://plot.ly/python/reference/#layout-updatemenus-active). To get only one trace to appear at first you must set the traces’ visible attribute (https://plot.ly/python/reference/#scatter-visible). visible=True is the default so setting visible=False on the trace that you don’t want to show up initially will hide it. The example here: https://plot.ly/python/custom-buttons/#update-button provides the logic for hiding some trace options on the initial load.

4

Thanks it works now!

5

I’m having a similar issue.
I’m using updatemenus and the update method to hide or show tables depending on what the user selects. However, when I first open the page no matter what I put in ‘active’ it will always show the table which the argument is False.

When I open the page, the table that is showing is the last ‘False’ and not the first ‘True’.

updatemenus = list([
    dict(active=0,
         x=0.6,
         y=0.65,
          buttons=list([   
              dict(label = 'Gross Sales by Week',
                    method = 'update',
                    args = [{'visible': 
                              [True, False, False, 
                               False, False, False,
                               False, False, False, 
                               True]},
]),

Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

6

Could you please post the updated code that worked for you with visible=False? I am running into a similar issue. Thanks!

7

Hi there,

Sorry… It’s been a while. What I understand from this

To get only one trace to appear at first you must set the traces’ visible attribute (Single-page reference in Python)

is that you need to set visible=True or visible=False in the trace itself and not in the updatemenus attribute.

Can you try it out?

8

That worked! Thank you girardea!

9

Setting the visible parameter at the trace level solved the issue for me as well.
Thanks !