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Joe_Williams
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6 years ago

Rest API Cloning Dashboards

It would be nice to be able to clone dashboards via the API. I have an onboarding system I wrote for some of our technicians that creates folders and collector groups and sets specific proper...
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Joe_Tran
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6 years ago
On 8/5/2019 at 2:23 PM, Joe Williams said:

For the record I tried to be cheeky and used Developer Tools to see what was being done to clone a dashboard and I can't even use that to get it working. Comes up with 'HTTP Status 415 – Unsupported Media Type'.

I was able to recently use the v2 REST API to clone dashboards. 

  1. 1. HTTP GET your "template" dashboard  via /dashboard/dashboards/{id} 
  2. 2. Modify the "template" to suit your need for the new clone, and deleting the following keys: id, template, userPermission, shareable, (and maybe groupName and groupFullPath, I was cloning private dashboards, so these keys don't apply to my immediate use case)
  3. 3. HTTP POST your modified "template" at /dashboard/dashboards/{id}/clone 

*insert disclaimer about undocumented REST API features*