UI Actions Roadmap

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This ticket tracks roadmap of UI Actions feature, which is mostly located in ui_actions and ui_actions_enhanced plugins.

• Documentation

Refactoring

• Improve ui_actions context interface (in progress)
• Improve ui_actions API

New features

• Dynamic actions license support
  • Notify feature usage for gold+ actions
• Telemetry for actions

New triggers

• APPLY_FILTER
• ROW_CLICK_TRIGGER Adds row click trigger for Lens table drilldowns #83167
• IP_CLICK
• GEO_CLICK
• Maybe DASHBOARD_MENU? It would render the top nav menu of Dashboard app.

New actions

• "Explore underlying data" actions
• Create alert (alerting team) — action opens up alerting configuration with most of the information prefilled? And allows you to configure alert (directly from chart for example)
• Drilldown in place (app team/dashboards) — click on the chart and it changes the current panel.
• Update another panel action — would replace an embeddable in the other panel. Filter another panel.
• Set variable action — when the dashboard has variables. Like “apply filter” but instead of applying filters it applies a variable.
• Expression action — allows you to run expression as a result of action and emit another action as a result of expression (allows chaining of actions for advanced users)
• Dynamic actions (ex. Drilldowns) ‐ you configure what the action will do, allows doing anything in kibana or outside of it (could send GET/POST request).

Bugs

• Respect browser event when determining ui_actions context menu position
• Don't show explore underlying data actions if no access to discover
• Subscriptions link for UI actions should go to enterprise page for ECK
• Explore underlying data to pick up filters from visualisation?
• Explore underlying data and saved search panel
• Actions sorting
• Memory leak in UI Actions popup discovered by Tim

Integrations

• "Explore_underlying_data" action in Maps

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Part of #44136