XCom view in grid has too many columns

[jscheffl]

Under which category would you file this issue?

Airflow Core

Apache Airflow version

main (but also has been in 3.2.x)

What happened and how to reproduce it?

When using the Grid view to XCom panel has too many columns which is polluting the layout. When navigating through the Grid I am able to see XCom tab only when I have selected a task and a run. (Compared to the global Browse -> XCom menu where I can search and filter on XComs globally)

Example view:

What you think should happen instead?

Columns "Dag", "Dag Run ID", "Run After", "Task" and "Map Index" should not be displayed. All this information is available in header above visually and is redundant.

Note that the "Filter Pill" in th view is already correctly filtered and the options to filter are not present already.

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Deployment

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Anything else?

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Are you willing to submit PR?

• Yes I am willing to submit a PR!

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[jroachgolf84]

@jscheffl - I'd be curious to see if this was at all intentional with the goal of making the XCom view accessible from more than just a "Task Instance". I believe right now a user needs to click on a Task Instance to see the "XComs" tab. There could be a couple of other scenarios where we might want to expose the XCom review.

• When selecting a DAG Run (see for all Tasks in the DAG Run)
• Without selecting a DAG Run (see for all Tasks across all DAG Runs)

cc: @bbovenzi and @cmarteepants

[jscheffl]

Yes might be - but for other views in the panel the colums are filtered. Might be only a nit and probably just nobody took care of it - is othering me for a while, never had time fixing myself, therefore raising an issue hoping somebody can improve.

Yes and knowing the view is shared also for Browse -> XCom menu. Would hope it keeps being shared but hides columns when called with pre-filtered data.