I'm building up a bunch of example queries on my metabase install and I'm finding a limitation in embedding previous questions into new ones.
Say I have Question #1 that has several template variables in it. If I use this question in a new question (by using {{#1}}), this new question doesn't automatically pick up the variables from the original question.
This also happens if I use a Snippet. Any template variables in the snippet will not show up in the UI of the question using it. This use-case is less interesting to me, but I presume that the issues are related.
Is there a way to have this work as I expect? If not, what is the expected usage pattern?
Hi @mynameisfiber
"embedding" means something very different in Metabase. You are referring to this:
https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/users-guide/referencing-saved-questions-in-queries.html
It's currently not possible to reference a parameter in a saved question (nested):
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/6449 - upvote by clicking 
on the first post
And snippets doesn't have an understanding of variables - it's just for text/SQL:
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/14545
This might be worth a read for you:
https://www.metabase.com/learn/building-analytics/sql-templates/organizing-sql.html
@flamber thanks for the reply! That is exactly the issue. I've upvoted and am following the discussion. I hope this can get resolved at some point because it really hits at a major use-case of metabase for me at least -- to allow powerusers to create simple tools for intermediate users to explore our SQL data.