From dccad4e0811132e9d992e07faa4ad2048d50f2d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oscar Kilhed <oscar.kilhed@grafana.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:52:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Dashboard scenes: fix textbox value only set to first
 character of default value (#86595)

Dashboard scene: fix textbox value only set to first character in default value
---
 .../serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts      | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts
index cdbcf461350..b89315a97af 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts
@@ -392,9 +392,20 @@ export function createSceneVariableFromVariableModel(variable: TypedVariableMode
       hide: variable.hide,
     });
   } else if (variable.type === 'textbox') {
+    let val;
+    if (!variable?.current?.value) {
+      val = variable.query;
+    } else {
+      if (typeof variable.current.value === 'string') {
+        val = variable.current.value;
+      } else {
+        val = variable.current.value[0];
+      }
+    }
+
     return new TextBoxVariable({
       ...commonProperties,
-      value: variable?.current?.value?.[0] ?? variable.query,
+      value: val,
       skipUrlSync: variable.skipUrlSync,
       hide: variable.hide,
     });