Why cannot I make a dashboard public? What are template variables?

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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    v10.2.3 MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    Make a dashboard public.

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

  • What happened?
    A letter appeared saying the dashboard has template variables on it.

  • What did you expect to happen?

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

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    This is the only template variable I set:
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    Then, I had interpolated variable values within queries, such as:
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  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?

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who created this dashboard?

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I did! Please, notice that I have just edited the post to include more information on the issue.

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is that variable used? what is it’s purpose?

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Yes, it is. The idea is to set it to the same value as another variable. I tried deleting it and still couldn’t make the dashboard public for the same reason.

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maybe you deleted but did not save. anyways might want to check the following if you have not already

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Any idea on what are “template variables”?

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Template variables are variables that are used in Templates (saved queries with variables). See documentation Variables | Grafana documentation

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I have a dashboard with many variable dropdown menus and full of queries like this (using an Infinity data source): [GET] /controller/rest/applications/${appName}/metric-data?metric-path=Business%20Transaction%20Performance%7CBusiness%20Transactions%7C${tier_A}%7C${bt_A}%7CErrors%20per%20Minute&time-range-type=BETWEEN_TIMES&start-time=${__from}&end-time=${__to}&output=JSON&rollup=false.
Is there any chance of converting this kind of dashboard (and its panels) into something I can then publish?
Each of the variables contains several values that come from HTTP requests; so do the panel queries. That’s why I implemented template variables.

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Currently public dashboards do not support template variables. However, we are in discussion on providing that support, if feasible.

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hi, have you fix this problem?
this is a features that will be very comfortable for setting dynamic values on the all dashboards.

Regards.

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Looking forward to the “Template Variable on Public Dashboard” feature :eyes:

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Well someone tagged this as solved :slight_smile: But it’s still an issues and it’s making public dashboard virual unusable. We would like to show dasboards on our signage screens but not possible now.