{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grafana/grafana/issues/1959","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grafana/grafana/issues/1959/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grafana/grafana/issues/1959/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grafana/grafana/issues/1959/events","html_url":"https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/1959","id":74006689,"number":1959,"title":"Templating: Reuse template variable definitions across dashboards","user":{"login":"gsaray101","id":3009225,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3009225?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101","html_url":"https://github.com/gsaray101","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gsaray101/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2015-05-07T14:29:23Z","updated_at":"2015-09-28T06:53:21Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Torkel,\r\n\r\nIs it possible to create global templates rather than a particular dashboard based templates. This is what I mean. Currently, I do this step to create template based dashboard:\r\n\r\n1. Create a new dashboard\r\n2. select option then features and pick template\r\n3. I can only use this template with this dashboard.\r\n\r\nIs it possible to create global templates? So that an SME will create the templates, and users will only pick the template names from the query to build charts? I hope I am clear."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grafana/grafana/issues/comments/143655333","html_url":"https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/1959#issuecomment-143655333","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/grafana/grafana/issues/1959","id":143655333,"user":{"login":"mvadu","id":8618235,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8618235?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu","html_url":"https://github.com/mvadu","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mvadu/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-09-28T06:53:21Z","updated_at":"2015-09-28T06:53:21Z","body":"+1\r\n\r\nIn my use case I have one template variable with predefined values, and used in 10+ dashboards. Making a change to 10 places every time is not fun!"}}