Cloning Explore dashboards

Note: Only editors and admins can clone dashboards.

This article contains the following topics:

• Cloning pre-built dashboards
• Cloning custom dashboards

Cloning pre-built dashboards

You cannot customize Explore's pre-built dashboards. However, you can clone a dashboard to create an editable copy of the dashboard and all of its queries. You can then modify the dashboard's queries or add new queries to the dashboard. Keep in mind that when you clone a pre-built dashboard, you also create copies of all queries used in the dashboard. These cloned queries are stored in the corresponding default datasets.

Tip: Before you clone a pre-built dashboard, check that nobody else has already done this. When the same pre-built dashboard is cloned multiple times it creates duplicate queries which can make finding the queries you want difficult.

To clone a pre-built dashboard

1. Open the Dashboard library ().
2. Click the Settings icon () to the right of the dashboard name.
3. Select Clone from the drop-down list.

   

4. Enter a name for the cloned dashboard.

   

5. Click Clone.

   The dashboard and all of its queries are duplicated.

Cloning custom dashboards

Cloning a custom dashboard is a similar process to cloning a pre-built dashboard. However, when you clone a custom dashboard you can control whether Explore creates a copy of the queries and additionally gives you the option to create a copy of the dataset that the original dashboard queries came from.

Tip: If you are planning to simply add new queries to a dashboard there is no need to clone the queries or datasets. However, if you want to customize the queries for the cloned dashboard in a different way then the original you must clone the queries. Cloning the dataset is rarely needed. It is useful only if you want to separate the cloned queries in a different dataset.

To clone a custom dashboard

1. Open the Dashboard library ().
2. Click the Settings icon () to the right of the dashboard name.
3. Select Clone from the drop-down list.

   

4. Enter a name for the cloned dashboard and select whether you want to clone the dashboards query and dataset also.

   

5. Click Clone.

   The dashboard and all of its queries is duplicated.