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Joe_Williams
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6 years ago

Cloning Dashboard Groups With Rest

Is there a way to clone a dashboard group? I am automating our onboard procedure for customers and this is one of the last steps. Currently I have a form that will automatically create a coll...
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Cole_McDonald
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6 years ago

Forgive me if you have already tried and discounted this for whatever reason, but my first thought is to

  1. 1) GET the json for the current "Template" using the rest API to get the entirety of its definition
  2. 2) Change the JSON to match the changes you need made to that (customer name, team name, project name)
  3. 3) POST the changed JSON to make the new group
  4. 4) Build a recursive function to walk that hierarchy
  5. 5) Grab each of the dashboards and change the appliesto to match the new set of devices
    1.     a)I'm currently doing that piece with a token at the directory level for each of our customers that I can then just change at the dashboard group level to make a full dashboard suite for them.
    2. 6) Duplicate each of those to the new dashboard group, and change the token.