Create Dependent Templates

Follow these steps to create templates with dependencies.

1. Create supporting app template. Supporting apps’ dashboards, lenses, and datasets can be reused by other apps.

2. Add a line to your dependent app templates’ template-info.json file that refers to templates to include in the dependency:

   "templateDependencies" : [{
         "name" : "<Template_A_devname>",
         "namespace" : "<Template_A_mynamespace>",
         "templateVersion" : "1.0",
         // optional condition in which to include this dependency.
         "condition" : "${Variables.dependOnAnotherTemplate}"
       }]
   
   

3. In your templatized asset JSON files (dashboard.json and so on) based on the dependent template, use the supporting app’s assets in context with the following:

   ${Apps.<templatename>.<Dashboards|Lenses|Datasets>.<assetSourceName>.<Name|Label|Alias|Id>}:
   

   Examples:

   "${Apps.namespacedone__SupportingDashboard.Dashboards.Comparision_tp.Name}"
   	"${Apps.namespacedone__SupportingDashboard.Datasets.MyDataset.Alias}"
   
   

4. Load all templates into the same org.

5. Create apps from the supporting templates.

6. Create the app from the dependent template. The requirements for creating a dependent app are:

   • The supporting app templates must exist in the org, and the user creating the dependent app must have access to them.
   • At least one app from the supporting template at the right version and namespace must exist and have a Completed status.