Inside a class, how to watch for changes in a global variable?

Ok I’m not 100% I think there was another issue I read in the forum with something similar been looking but haven’t found. I’ve tried to but been unsuccessful to trigger an initial select

It might be a running issue, there’s an open github about it in the below link if it’s the same issue

Updating selected value in widget after changing param.Selector objects - Param - HoloViz Discourse