# Make Input Controls for dynamic number of devices?

**URL:** <https://forums.losant.com/t/make-input-controls-for-dynamic-number-of-devices/2799>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** dashboard, input-control\
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/make-input-controls-for-dynamic-number-of-devices/2799 "2020-04-06T21:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_Barbee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Jason\_Barbee](https://forums.losant.com/u/Jason_Barbee)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/make-input-controls-for-dynamic-number-of-devices/2799/1 "2020-04-06T21:08:08Z")

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Let’s say I have multiple sites, with any number of theromstats maybe 1 maybe 20. I created a slider bar input dashboard to set the temperature, filtering it by devices with the same Tag/Type.  
It seems to want to try to apply the change to all the devices. Is there a way to have the dashboard generate all the devices of “TYPE=Thermostat”? (each with their own value and slider bar)  
(rather than perhaps building every input control manually for each device, and making a custom dashboard per site)

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**Author:** ![anaptfox](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/anaptfox/32/873_2.png) [@anaptfox](https://forums.losant.com/u/anaptfox)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/make-input-controls-for-dynamic-number-of-devices/2799/2 "2020-04-06T21:22:14Z")

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Hi @Jason_Barbee,

Currently today, this is not possible to do as you’re describing. Typically, what customers will do is have a Site Overview Dashboard that contains a [Device List Block](https://docs.losant.com/dashboards/device-list/).

Then, you can build a second Dashboard with [Context Variables](https://docs.losant.com/dashboards/context-variables/). This would allow you to build one dashboard that supports many devices depending on the context.

There is a video that walks through how to do this in Course 4 of [Losant University](https://losant.learnupon.com/).

I’m happy to explain more as well 🙂