Crafting dashboards – unleashing potential via the command line

Dashboards are the most important ingredient in the Arduino IoT Cloud pertaining to data visualization. In the Arduino Cloud CLI, we have dashboard-specific commands to perform operations on dashboards, such as extracting a template from an existing dashboard, viewing a list of dashboards, deleting the dashboard, and creating a dashboard from an extracted template. Firstly, we will start with dashboard template extraction.

Extracting a template from a dashboard

In the Arduino Cloud CLI, we deal with commands and provide different parameters to perform various operations. Therefore, it is difficult to create a new dashboard via the command line, as it will make it more complex to guide the Arduino IoT Cloud about widgets and attach these widgets with cloud variables via commands.

To solve this issue, the Arduino team introduced the concept of template extraction from a dashboard. For example, if you want...