# Kibana

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## [What happened to templated/scripted dashboards in Kibana 4?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-happened-to-templated-scripted-dashboards-in-kibana-4/65)

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**Author:** [@robyn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robyn)\
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**Last updated:** [April 30, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-happened-to-templated-scripted-dashboards-in-kibana-4/65 "2015-04-30T17:26:19Z")

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In Kibana 4, the state of each dashboard (including filters, queries, columns, etc..) is stored directly in its URL. This should be a lot easier than constructing scripted dashboards. The URL is encoded using RISON, a …

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