Variable controls in Discover #3440
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This PR adds comprehensive documentation for variable controls in Discover, enabling users to create dynamic queries with reusable controls that can be shared between Discover and Dashboards.
- Adds new section documenting how to create, edit, and use variable controls in Discover
- Creates shared content snippets for variable control configuration and examples to reduce duplication
- Documents the workflow for importing Discover queries with controls into dashboards
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| explore-analyze/discover/try-esql.md | Adds complete variable controls documentation for Discover including creation, editing, and dashboard import |
| explore-analyze/dashboards/add-controls.md | Updates dashboard controls documentation to use shared snippets and adds import workflow |
| explore-analyze/_snippets/variable-control-form.md | Creates shared snippet for variable control configuration parameters |
| explore-analyze/_snippets/variable-control-examples.md | Creates shared snippet with ESQL query examples using variable controls |
| explore-analyze/_snippets/import-discover-query-controls-into-dashboard.md | Creates shared snippet documenting the import workflow from Discover to Dashboard |
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Lovely! Added some small comments, nothing crucial
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Co-authored-by: Stratou <[email protected]>
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LGTM, left some suggestions for your consideration! Hope they're helpful
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…dashboard.md Co-authored-by: Benjamin Ironside Goldstein <[email protected]>
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This PR: - Adds a section about creating variable controls in Discover, with sub-sections on how to edit them and how to bring these controls over to a dashboard - Transforms certain pieces of content into content snippets that are shared between Discover and Dashboards docs as variable controls are used in both apps: code examples, control parameters. - Adds the section about "how to bring Discover sessions along with their controls to a dashboard" to the "Add controls" page in dashboards docs as well. This content is single-sourced so only maintained in one place. - Re-adds a "preview" flag to the Variable controls section in dashboard docs, that one was mistakenly removed in another PR Find page previews in one of the comments below Note: Tested on staging environment on Oct 10 Closes: elastic#3096 --------- Co-authored-by: Stratou <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Benjamin Ironside Goldstein <[email protected]>
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This PR: - Adds a section about creating variable controls in Discover, with sub-sections on how to edit them and how to bring these controls over to a dashboard - Transforms certain pieces of content into content snippets that are shared between Discover and Dashboards docs as variable controls are used in both apps: code examples, control parameters. - Adds the section about "how to bring Discover sessions along with their controls to a dashboard" to the "Add controls" page in dashboards docs as well. This content is single-sourced so only maintained in one place. - Re-adds a "preview" flag to the Variable controls section in dashboard docs, that one was mistakenly removed in another PR Find page previews in one of the comments below Note: Tested on staging environment on Oct 10 Closes: elastic#3096 --------- Co-authored-by: Stratou <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Benjamin Ironside Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Note: Tested on staging environment on Oct 10
Closes: #3096