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[Lens] Table doesn't appear as one of the Lens suggestions #74247

Open AlonaNadler opened 4 years ago

AlonaNadler commented 4 years ago

7.9 cloud staging. When dropping a field into LEns table is no longer appear as a suggestion The reason it is important is that table is used often by Kibana users and suggestions are a popular way to showcase the option available to visualize the data the users choose

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elasticmachine commented 4 years ago

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app (Team:KibanaApp)

wylieconlon commented 4 years ago

I removed the table suggestion for two reasons:

  1. The main reason is that we only show 5 suggestions, so when I added pie charts I needed to hide something else
  2. A smaller reason is that the tables never showed a real table, just an icon. This inconsistency was confusing to me

To bring back table suggestions, we should improve both of these factors. We can change the rank of table suggestions so that they are the last suggestion, and render a real table instead of an icon. The real table should probably show a limited number of rows and columns, or maybe just the first row.

AlonaNadler commented 4 years ago

A smaller reason is that the tables never showed a real table, just an icon. This inconsistency was confusing to me

While it is nice to have to real preview, it is not a prerequisite. I think due to the table popularity we should bring it back

The main reason is that we only show 5 suggestions, so when I added pie charts I needed to hide something else

In 7.9 I see there are only 3 suggestions in some cases

flash1293 commented 4 years ago

If this is an important way for users to discover the table, we can add back the current state and branch out improvements into a separate issue. @wylieconlon what do you think?

wylieconlon commented 4 years ago

Yes, it is technically possible to bring back the table suggestion, as long as we change the ranking of the table suggestions to be lower than previously. I would not expect the table suggestion to rank higher than visualizations that have fully-rendered previews.

ghudgins commented 3 years ago

+1 on this from a usability test yesterday

would have been nice if we offered the table when we see a high cardinality break down by like client IP generating a "Scarf" visualization :)

ghudgins commented 3 years ago

add to more visualization types - this can be done without doing the overall suggestions improvement project