Docs: Refactor Variables and Templating content (#23952)

* Moved templating.md

Moved file to a different folder, added alias information, updated menu.yaml

* Split out advanced variable format options from templating.md

* Reworked Advanced variable format options

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* Moved global variables to another topic

* Moved template files

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* Update templates-and-variables.md

* made new repeating panels and rows topic

* updated links and menu

* Update advanced-variable-format-options.md

* Update repeat-panels-or-rows.md

* Update menu.yaml

* Update prometheus.md

* Applied Daniel's edits
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@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Instead of hard-coding things like server, application and sensor name in your m
Variables are shown as dropdown select boxes at the top of the dashboard. These dropdowns make it easy to change the data
being displayed in your dashboard.
Check out the [Templating]({{< relref "../../reference/templating.md" >}}) documentation for an introduction to the templating feature and the different
Check out the [Templating]({{< relref "../../variables/templates-and-variables.md" >}}) documentation for an introduction to the templating feature and the different
types of template variables.
### Query variable
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> Support for `$__range`, `$__range_s` and `$__range_ms` only available from Grafana v5.3
You can use some global built-in variables in query variables; `$__interval`, `$__interval_ms`, `$__range`, `$__range_s` and `$__range_ms`, see [Global built-in variables]({{< relref "../../reference/templating/#global-built-in-variables" >}}) for more information. These can be convenient to use in conjunction with the `query_result` function when you need to filter variable queries since
You can use some global built-in variables in query variables; `$__interval`, `$__interval_ms`, `$__range`, `$__range_s` and `$__range_ms`, see [Global built-in variables]({{< relref "../../variables/global-variables.md" >}}) for more information. These can be convenient to use in conjunction with the `query_result` function when you need to filter variable queries since
`label_values` function doesn't support queries.
Make sure to set the variable's `refresh` trigger to be `On Time Range Change` to get the correct instances when changing the time range on the dashboard.