# Parameterized dashboards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parameterized-dashboards/51786
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 3, 2016, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parameterized-dashboards/51786 "2016-06-03T10:05:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Developer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Developer)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parameterized-dashboards/51786/1 "2016-06-03T10:05:25Z")
Hi
I have about 10 different visualizations in my Kibana and 5 elasticseach indexes, each of them contains a very very big scope of documents with the same structure (They were separated for more quick search).
So, I wanted to create separate 5 Dashboards for each of indexes and use there my 10 visualizations, which will present the data only from their own index.
I want to avoid the duplication of visualizations, cause there I should to create 50 visualizations and support them.
Is it a way to create parameterized dashboards, where I can use the same visualizations which will show the numbers from needed index?
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parameterized-dashboards/51786/2 "2016-06-03T18:59:13Z")
That question comes up fairly often. There's not a built-in way that I know of.
Have a look at;
> [@Dashboard templates in 4.4](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-templates-in-4-4/44985/1):
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> I have a collection of systems collecting the same stats and (not surprisingly) I like to make a single dashboard that varies only be the system name. In the docs for Kibana 3 I found this page: [Scripted Dashboards .js](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/scripted-dashboards-.js.html) .. which looks like what I want but the top of the page says it's for an older version (3.x) and there's no corresponding page in the 4.x documentation. Is there a new way do to this? Pete
> [@Dashboard Templates Kibana 5.0.0 alpha-2?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-templates-kibana-5-0-0-alpha-2/50883):
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> Hi, I'm quite new to ELK stack and deving on 5.0.0. I want a single Master Kibana Dashboard showing summary Topbeat statistics, and a Detail dashboard for each Server. I will use a Markup Visualization for navigation between dashboards. Strikes me that for each Server Dashboard I'm re-doing each visualization, and replicating dashboards (one for each server). I'm building up a future maintenance nightmare. I would much rather have Template visualizations, and a Template Dashboard (containi…
> [@Dynamic dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-dashboard/1714):
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> Hi, Is it possible to dynamically create a dashboard. I want to display the same dashboard for different users whose data is present in the same index as different types like indexname/{userId}. Now for every logged in user, the same dashboard should display the data depending on the userId field. Is this possible in kibana 4? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@zepp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zepp)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parameterized-dashboards/51786/3 "2017-02-16T17:30:37Z")
Has anybody answered this? I can not get this to work with a "Saved" dashboard but can do with a "Snapshot". The problem I have with the "snapshot" is that it doesn't hide the controls. The only tool I found that allowed me to parameterize a dashboard is Grafana.
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### Author:  [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parameterized-dashboards/51786/4 "2017-02-16T20:34:34Z")
Hi zepp,
Are you trying to create duplicate dashboards in Kibana for each index, or are you trying to embed the dashboards in another page(s)?
And if you duplicate dashboards in Kibana, do they have to update together or individually if you make a change?
Lee
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### Author:  [@zepp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zepp)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parameterized-dashboards/51786/5 "2017-02-18T15:22:05Z")
Thanks for reaching out. I was embedding the page using an iframe --- I came back to it yesterday and was able to get the snapshot to work.
Basically I am attempting to create an HTML form to help the end user construct a filter/query (from simple to complex) and pass/apply it to a dashboard.
I am hoping we can purchase X-Pack which would help by providing the ability to have R/O dashboards but templates are still a challenge. I can use a Kibana field formatter to link dashboards but templating is still an issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parameterized-dashboards/51786/6 "2017-07-06T13:33:05Z")