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Copy and Paste Widgets Across Dashboards
Copy widgets such as text and charts, then paste them in another dashboard and still keep the original widget orientation, styling, and queries.
- To copy and paste one or more widgets, first select them. To select multiple widgets, use Ctrl or Cmd.
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To copy widgets, use Ctrl+c,
Cmd+c, or click the copy icon (
).
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Paste widgets in the same dashboard or a different one.
To paste, use Ctrl+v, Cmd+v, or click the paste icon (
). Pasted widgets keep their original layout, styling,
and underlying queries.
Keep these considerations in mind when copying and pasting widgets.
- When you paste widgets in a dashboard with existing widgets, pasted widgets are placed in available space on the dashboard.
- When you copy and paste a text widget that contains query-based text, the query changes to plain text. However, you can duplicate a text widget in the same dashboard without changing query-based text to plain text.
- When you copy and paste a widget with a query that uses targeted faceting, faceting is removed. To keep targeted faceting in a widget, duplicate widgets instead.
- Bindings are resolved and changed to plain text when you paste a widget with a binding in another dashboard. Let’s say you use a toggle widget to show dynamic values in a text widget. For example, show sales revenue in a text widget based on country or region selections in a toggle widget. When you paste the text widget with the binding into another dashboard, the dynamic text becomes static. The static text shows the first row and column of data, such as “$25 K Sales in North America region”. To keep binding interactions in pasted widgets, use the advanced editor to recreate bindings with JSON.
- Query and widget IDs can change in pasted widgets.
- You can’t paste a reusable dashboard component multiple times in a dashboard.
- You can create dashboard components by copying and pasting widgets into a component in the Component Designer. However, you can’t copy a component widget into the Component Designer.
- Start value settings in pasted widgets are present when queries in the target dashboard don’t have start values defined. If the target dashboard uses initial values for the same queries as the pasted widget, start values aren’t available in the pasted widget.
- Manage Widgets on a Page
You can move widgets to another page. To share them and their queries across pages, add them to other pages. If you no longer need a widget, delete it from the page.
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