# What happened to templated/scripted dashboards in Kibana 4?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-happened-to-templated-scripted-dashboards-in-kibana-4/65>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [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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**Author:** ![robyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@robyn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robyn)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-happened-to-templated-scripted-dashboards-in-kibana-4/65/1 "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 data serialization format optimized for compactness in URIs. You can also get a decoded URL string by going to the Share menu \> Share a link.

The following is an example of a decoded URL string:

```
http://hostname:port/#/dashboard/Github?_g=()&_a=(filters:!(),panels:!((col:7,row:1,size_x:3,size_y:2,visId:Github-State),(col:10,row:1,size_x:3,size_y:2,visId:Github-Pull-Request),(col:1,row:3,size_x:3,size_y:4,visId:Github-Repository),(col:4,row:3,size_x:3,size_y:4,visId:Github-Labels),(col:1,row:7,size_x:6,size_y:5,visId:Github-Creation-By-Repository),(col:7,row:3,size_x:6,size_y:4,visId:Github-User-By-Repository),(col:7,row:7,size_x:6,size_y:5,visId:Github-Assignee-By-Repository),(col:1,row:1,size_x:3,size_y:2,visId:'Github-Metric-Document-Count-(Issues)'),(col:4,row:1,size_x:3,size_y:2,visId:'Github-Metric-Document-Count-(Pull-Requests)')),query:(query_string:(query:'*')),title:Github)
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-happened-to-templated-scripted-dashboards-in-kibana-4/65/2 "2017-07-06T14:19:50Z")

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