saving url-parameterized dashboards overwrites placeholders

[falkenbt]

Referring to
#168 (comment)

When calling http://localhost:8000/index.html#/dashboard/elasticsearch/Awesomesauce?query=somequeryhere
and saving (or exporting) it, the placeholder {{query}} is being overwritten by the value ("somequeryhere") in the json.

IMHO the variables should optionally be skipped when saving the dashboard.

Or is this a feature? :)

[rashidkpc]

This known and expected behavior. The variable is interpreted by the template renderer before the dashboard is loaded, there is no way to keep a reference to it for saving.

[falkenbt]

I see. This makes developing these dashboards a bit challenging. But I don't have a good solution either.
Maybe we can put an inline json editor on the roadmap? That would make things a bit easier.

BTW the link to the example is dead: https://github.com/elasticsearch/kibana/blob/master/dashboards/logstash.js