Template Variable values and text

[balakaushik]

Would appreciate if you can add something like the following to support user defined text for the tempalte variables with different value corresponding to the text rather than deriving the value from the text. In file public/app/features/templating/templateValueSrv.js in the _updateNonQueryVariable function:
// if the options are specified then use it
if (variable.options) {
if (variable.includeAll) {
self.addAllOption(variable);
}
return variable.options;
} else {
// extract options in comma seperated string
variable.options = _.map(variable.query.split(/[,]+/), function (text) {
return { text: text.trim(), value: text.trim() };
});
}

[torkelo]

Maybe for the custom variable type.

[torkelo]

#1032