Multiple window app, and one value affecting the rest

Dash Python
1

Hey, so I am not sure if that is possible but pretty sure I am super close, what I am trying to do:
Have a multiple browser windows app where on each window there is a common value to choose using dcc.Dropdown, but where changing it in any of the windows will affect the value on others. I am also fine with the dropdown being present on only one window, but still affecting all the other but I feel like that does not matter. I feel like I am close but I don’t know how to open multiple windows at once, as when I open http://127.0.0.1:8050/, it goes automatically to of course the page with just dropdowns, but when I open new window with same address of course it is “new instance”, so basically I don’t know how to make multiple browser windows same instance I think. Also, example of what I would want to achieve is to have one browser window with all data showed in specific format for some continent, and 2 or 3 other windows showing graphs or other data, but they are all linked by dropdown menu that can be but does not have to be on all of them.

simple code:

app.layout = html.Div([
    dcc.Location(id='url', refresh=False),
    dcc.Dropdown(
        # Code for changing current continent
        id='current_country',
        options=[
            {'label': 'Asia', 'value': 'Asia'},
            {'label': 'Europe', 'value': 'Europe'},
        ],
        value='Asia',
    ),
    html.Span(id='page-content',
             ),
],
    className="container",
)
@app.callback(Output('page-content', 'children'),
              [Input('url', 'pathname')])

def display_page(pathname):
    if pathname == '/Asia':
        return Asia.layout
    elif pathname == '/Europe':
        return Europe.layout
    else:
        return 0

Simple Layout but some would have graphs and some would have datatables:

layout = [
    html.Span(
        # Value to show for test
        id='test_view'
    ),]

@app.callback(Output('test_view', 'children'),
              [Input('current_country', 'value')])

def update_rv_view(current_country):
    return current_country
2

One more note, it will be only run locally, so there will be just one user, no need to make it multiuser. So I tried with changing it to have the script change global variables but it does not seem that other windows are updating when I change it.

3

@mjk7ha I am running into the same issue. Did you ever find a solution?

4

Hey, nothing really clean and nice, I found something with running some kind of extra cache to store data and get it to different instance, but it is not efficient. :confused: (sorry, forgot how that cache was called but I am sure you found that post that referred to it if you found mine:) )