Can a dashboard or widget be cloned?
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I'd love to clone a dashboard (the same user, or to another user) or a widget. Is there some straight forward method to do this? This would include using the command line on my Raspberry Pi if that makes sense.
Background: I have a MySensors node in each room to control the IR HVAC unit in that room. I made a dashboard for each HVAC/room. The dashboard includes several "Sensor custom buttons" widgets as well as graphs and sensor widgets. I "cloned" the dashboards using copy/paste as much as possible (mostly the JSON on the custom buttons), but it was still a lot of work. Today I setup another user and I realized I was going to have to create those dashboards all over again. Any level of cloning support that makes all of this easier would be greatly appreciated. I realize that implementing a general dashboard/widget cloning feature could be lots of work.
P.S. I understand that after cloning I may have to change the sensors used by a widget, but it would still save a lot of time.
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@tomg For now, there is no direct clone support. As you are in 1.4.0 SNAPSHOT version you may clone it in the backend as follows,
- Capture existing dashboards from
mycontroller/conf/resources/dashboards - Select your exact dashboard, you want to clone. In my case, it was
a0481d5d-422d-4fc9-9548-ca299cfd77e1.json - Now create a new dashboard and note that dashboard name in
mycontroller/conf/resources/dashboards(in my case it wasbb1aa13d-7679-4161-9cd5-7da580cdcb27.json), NOTE: New dashboard layout should be as like old dashboard. - Execute the following commands,
cd mycontroller/conf/resources/dashboards/cp a0481d5d-422d-4fc9-9548-ca299cfd77e1.json bb1aa13d-7679-4161-9cd5-7da580cdcb27.json
NOTE: All the commands should be executed as the same user as running MyController server.
IMPORTANT: As dashboard have unique id's may lead some issue, I never tested this. Just giving an idea. - Capture existing dashboards from
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@jkandasa Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try in the near future.
Please consider supporting this functionality in the future in the user interface of the MyController program.
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