# Scripted dashboards
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This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support **Grafana version 8.x**.  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 12.x, see [Working in Grafana version 12](using-grafana-v12.md).  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 10.x, see [Working in Grafana version 10](using-grafana-v10.md).  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 9.x, see [Working in Grafana version 9](using-grafana-v9.md).

**Warning**  
 This feature is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. 

 If you have many metric names that change (for example, new servers) in a defined pattern, it can be time consuming to constantly create new dashboards. 

 With scripted dashboards, you can dynamically create your dashboards using JavaScript. In the Grafana install folder, under `public/dashboards/`, there is a file named `scripted.js`. This file contains an example of a scripted dashboard. You can access it by using the URL: `http://grafana_url/dashboard/script/scripted.js?rows=3&name=myName` 

 When you open `scripted.js`, you can see how it reads URL parameters from the `ARGS` variable and then adds rows and panels. 

## Example: scripted.js
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```
var seriesName = 'argName';

if (!_.isUndefined(ARGS.name)) {
  seriesName = ARGS.name;
}

dashboard.panels.push({
  title: 'Events',
  type: 'graph',
  fill: 1,
  linewidth: 2,
  gridPos: {
    h: 10,
    w: 24,
    x: 0,
    y: 10,
  },
  targets: [
    {
      target: "randomWalk('" + seriesName + "')",
    },
    {
      target: "randomWalk('random walk2')",
    },
  ],
});

return dashboard;
```

## More examples
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 You can find more examples in the `public/dashboards/` directory of your Grafana installation.