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  1. Dashboard
  2. Import dashboard

We have talked about dashboard meta data in tutorial.

Therefore you should already know that you can change dashboard settings by modify meta data.

But a more common use case for meta data is to import a dashboard.

Copy meta data

Let’s open the setting modal of Home dashboard and select Meta data tab.

metadata

Then copy these meta data of JSON format.

Import dashboard

  1. Click + icon in the bottom section of sidebar
  2. Select Import dashboard tab
  3. Paste the meta data you copied into Meta JSON field
  4. Select the team you want to import this dashboard to
import

You can modify meta data before imported, such as rename the title from Home Dashboard to “title”: “A imported dashboard” .

Click Submit button to see the result.

What has changed?

When a dashboard is imported, what has changed when compared to the original dashboard?

The answer is dashboard id: d-home -> d-c52NkURSz.

Therefore the imported dashboard and the original dashboard are two different dashboards, although the looks exactly the same.