Create Dependent Templates

Follow these steps to create templates with dependencies.

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

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

1"templateDependencies" : [{
2      "name" : "<Template_A_devname>",
3      "namespace" : "<Template_A_mynamespace>",
4      "templateVersion" : "1.0",
5      // optional condition in which to include this dependency.
6      "condition" : "${Variables.dependOnAnotherTemplate}"
7    }]

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:

1${Apps.<templatename>.<Dashboards|Lenses|Datasets>.<assetSourceName>.<Name|Label|Alias|Id>}:

Examples:

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

Load all templates into the same org.
Create apps from the supporting templates.
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.