topic Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard in ArcGIS Dashboards Questions

How to duplicate an operations dashboard

DavidHughell — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:32:19 GMT

How can I replicate my operations dashboard and have it linked to new data files without having to re-configure all the dependencies?

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

BrianBaldwin — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:37:30 GMT

I would give the AGO Assistant tool a try: ArcGIS Online Assistant

You can point to your Dashboard item and then create a copy of it.

You could also do this with all of the dependencies and then edit as you see fit.

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

DavidHughell — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:46:11 GMT

Thanks for the quick response. However, if I just copy the dashboard the pointers will still point to the original data files. I need a way to edit the dashboard so they point to new files.

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

KenBuja — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:48:58 GMT

After copying the Dashboard, use the "I want to..." dropdown and select "View an Item's JSON".

In the Data portion, you can edit the itemId property to point to the new data.

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

DerekLaw — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 20:33:05 GMT

Hi David,

Please vote for the enhancement on the ArcGIS Ideas site,
Operation dashboard - Add the ability to save as a template

Hope this helps,

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

DavidHughell — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:16:12 GMT

This looks like what I need, but where do I find the “I want to …” dropdown?

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

BrianBaldwin — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:36:48 GMT

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

DavidHughell — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:27:07 GMT

Thanks. Using AGO Assist to edit JSON code provide a whole new dimension to modifying dashboards.

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

NidaIbrahim — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 09:33:04 GMT

Hello Brian and all,

I followed the same steps to clone an ops dashboard but in the ArcGIS Online Assistant tool the targeted ops dashboard isn't getting highlighted I mean it can't be dragged and dropped in order to copy it - please see the photo below

How can I clone such a dashboard then? Thanks.

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

BrianBaldwin — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:25:09 GMT

This is a limitation of the tool - but there is a workaround.

If you are just looking to copy the dashboard in the same organization (I didn't test between organizations, but it should work as long as you duplicate the map and then update the JSON to point to that map).

So - what I did is to just create a new dashboard (can be blank) and then in the AGO Assistant tool, go to 'View an Item's JSON' - now, copy the JSON in the Data section - and then paste it into your 'new' dashboard. This will copy all of the configurations, etc. over.

Re: How to duplicate an operations dashboard

ScottEvans — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:26:18 GMT

I found this approach to work ... kind of. While it copied the dashboard over to the new environment, I still had to modify the JSON to point to the correct service id's. But even then the dashboard needed some manual configuring in the edit mode to get it up and running 100%.