Storybook: Add option to switch to a specific panel

[shilman]

Issue by mnmtanish
_Monday Sep 26, 2016 at 09:21 GMT_
_Originally opened as https://github.com/storybooks/storybook-addon-options/issues/4_

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It can be useful to show some panels by default when viewing certain stories.
Related issue: https://github.com/kadirahq/storybook-addon-knobs/issues/29#issuecomment-247503389

cc: @UsulPro

[ndelangen]

Good point, will add this to the list for #1209 api-v2

[UsulPro]

@ndelangen maybe it's worth to mention that we have this API in lib/UI and in order to make it public (accessible via setOptions) we just need to allow to pass it here: https://github.com/storybooks/storybook/blob/master/lib/ui/src/modules/api/actions/api.js#L82

[glambert]

Regarding this, is it currently possible to set a default panel for ALL stories? For example, I'm using the storybook-readme addon and I'd want to have it as the default opened panel.

[UsulPro]

@ls-guillaume-lambert The order of addons in the "addons panel" is the same as you import them in 'addons.js'. And the first panel will be opened as you run Storybook.

[glambert]

Perfect, thanks for the heads up!

[ndelangen]

Good tip @UsulPro !

I think that's certainly one to add to the docs somewhere!

[hcz]

upd: this option was renamed from selectedAddonPanel to selectedPanel.
For example:

setOptions({ selectedPanel: 'storybook/actions/panel' });