# 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")
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### Author: ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@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")

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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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