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# 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:

    ```nolang
    "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:

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

    Examples:

    ```nolang
    "${Apps.namespacedone__SupportingDashboard.Dashboards.Comparision_tp.Name}"
    	"${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.