Misleading or Confusing version compatibility table reference to use for CCS or CCR.

[akashsingh-aps]

Type of issue

Document Enhancement Request

What documentation page is affected

Misleading or Confusing version compatibility table reference to use for CCS or CCR.

a. https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/remote-clusters/ec-enable-ccs
b. https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/search/cross-cluster-search#ccs-supported-configurations

What happened?

• The documentation referring to the version compatibility table could be easily misleading or confusing if anyone miss the Important note mentioned below the table.

• Every versions in the range is not certainly compatible. For eg. v9.0.1 is not compatible with v8.17.3 for CCS as per the documentation:
  https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/search/cross-cluster-search#ccs-supported-configurations

• This above document [https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/search/cross-cluster-search#ccs-supported-configurations] actually has much accurate version compatibility details.

• The Important note in the screenshot above takes us to the same page where exact version details are mentioned, however anyone can easily miss that considering the table with range.

• Also sometime note can be obscured by an overlay message and can block this information. For eg it happened with a customer as below-

Additional info

• Version compatibility table should have exact version details to avoid confusion rather than range with an Important note.
• Also two separate tables for version compatibility can easily mislead the customer, as happened here already.