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Product ManagerHi @Joe Williams ,
Thanks for posting! The historical difficulty here lies in the fact that there is no HTTP clone verb. That being said, we recognize the importance of being able to quickly reproduce dashboards & the widgets included (and making the GET / POST requests individually here can be cumbersome). The best current option is to GET the template for the dashboard and then POST a new dashboard using that template (which allows you to reproduce a dashboard and all widgets in 2 requests).
Have you tried doing a GET + POST using dashboard templates via API, and if so can you provide more detail on the shortcomings of that option for your use case (e.g. unhappy with having to make two requests, takes too long, etc.)?
I think there is room for improvement on our end, perhaps we could add a convenience clone function into the SDK or implement the clone RESTfully directly in the API (e.g. adding a query parameter to the POST option for dashboards to clone from an existing dashboard). Can you also comment on whether you'd want the ability to change configuration during the clone, or whether you're looking for an exact clone & will edit / customize afterwards? I want to make sure we understand your full workflow.
Thanks!
Sarah
