# CreateTemplate
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Use the `CreateTemplate` operation to create a template from an existing Quick Sight analysis or template. You can use the resulting template to create a dashboard.

Following is an example AWS CLI command for this operation.

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#### [ AWS CLI ]

```
aws quicksight create-template 
    --aws-account-id {{555555555555}}
    --template-id {{TEMPLATEID}}
    --source-entity {{SOURCEENTITY}}
```

You can also make this command using a CLI skeleton file with the following command. For more information about CLI skeleton files, see [Use CLI skeleton files](cli-skeletons.md).

```
aws quicksight create-template
    --cli-input-json file://{{createtemplate}}.json
```

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You can to get the ID the dataset ID by using a `DescribeAnalysis`operation. The `ANALYSISID`is part of the analysis URL in Quick Sight. You can also use the `ListAnalyses` operation to get the ID.

For more information about the `CreateTemplate` operation, see [CreateTemplate](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/APIReference/API_CreateTemplate.html) in the *Quick Sight API Reference*.