[Meta][Lens] Integration with Kibana

[timroes]

This meta issue tracks integrations with the rest of Kibana that need to be improved or implemented in Lens.

Basic Expectations

• Client-side CSV export of data (Panel action) ([Lens] CSV export #74509)
• Auto Refresh working ([Lens] Editor does not auto refresh #57671)
• Persistent timerange/pinned filters across reload/apps ([Lens] Persist timerange/pinned filters across reload/apps #61758)

Issues

Exporting from Lens

• Generating PDF and PNG exports directly from Lens [Lens] Generating PDF and PNG exports directly from Lens #130438
• CSV export via reporting (also via POST url) [Lens] Deep linkable CSV Export #97250
• Inspecting Saved Objects under management ([Lens] Allow inspecting saved objects #56624)
• Sharing Lens visualizations ([Lens] Ability to share a visualization link from Lens #75316)
• Inspector ([Lens] Integrate with Inspector #55902)
• Copy table column [Lens] Add "copy column" functionality to table #134308

Embedding Lens

• Deep Linking into prefilled editor ([Lens] Deep Link into a prefilled editor #59845)
• Lens embedded in solutions Lens as an embbedable that can be embedded inside Elastic solutions  #66479
• Expose API to embed and link to Lens [Lens] Implement deep linking and embedding #84416
• Partial configuration while on Dashboard Partial configuration editing while on dashboard for Lens panels  #72437
• Disable interactions [Lens] Option to disable interactions #65630
• Description in dashboard title [Lens] Show description in dashboard title #69638
• Styling API [Lens] API for Styling Lens Embeddables #69349
• Saving Lens visualization directly into Canvas (on expression level)
• Add callbacks for events [Lens]: Embeddability API: Add callbacks for event handlers #90925
• Improve documentation [Lens] Embeddability API: UX Improvements and documentation #90926
• Allow legend interactions [Embeddables] [Dashboard] [Lens] Provide an API for rendering custom legend items when Lens and other embeddables are rendered in non-edit mode #90724
• Global drag/drop context [Lens] Global drag context to allow drag/drop interaction with filter bar #91380
• Add option to include action menu in embeddable renderer [Lens] Add option to include action menu in embeddable renderer #93941
• Improve api docs [Lens] Improve api docs #93940
• Add mocks to plugin [Lens] Create plugin setup mock #94554
• Open prefilled editor in new tab [Lens] Embeddable navigateToPrefilledEditor open in new tab #94555
• Save from within app [Lens] Expose save dialog behavior via plugin contract #94585
• Add telemetry to embedding [Lens] Telemetry for embeddable component usage #94894
• Allow refreshing embeddable [Lens] Allow refreshing Lens component #95553
• Set query and unpinned filters via URL [Lens] Accept filter definition via URL query parameters #97249
• Show warnings in embeddable [Lens][Dashboard] Warnings are not shown when Lens vis is embedded in dashboard #99060
• Allow editor access for dashboard by value panels [Lens][Visualize] Allow editor access with dashboard all permission #99308
• Provide helper for formula column building [Lens] Provide formula helper to simplify integration of Lens instances #103055
• Open prefilled editor in read-only mode [Lens] Allow opening a prefilled Lens in read-only mode that can return to an originating app #103564
• [Lens] Synchronize cursor Popup for X-axis across all Lens visualizations in a dashboard #113719
• [Lens] Filterable actions in embeddable lens #120327

Using shared infrastructure

• Collapsed field names setting (short dotted names) ([Lens] Use index pattern service instead saved object client #73306)
• Maps in Lens suggestions (Elastic Maps in other applications (Dashboard, Lens) #49242)
• Check for duplicates Lens - No duplicate title check / warning #64979
• Alerting [Lens] Alerting from Lens Visualizations #71150
• Fix breadcrumb [Lens] Fix breadcrumb to include Lens #62167
• Add support for selecting saved searches visualization editors #11737
• Send to background [Lens] Encourage user to use smaller data set if searches take too long #84908
• Integrate search session id [Lens] Integrate search session id #85517
• Index pattern creation dialog [Lens] Integrate index pattern creation dialog #103251

Related issues

Related issues, but not part of the workstream of the Lens team.

• Embed Lens in Canvas ([Canvas] Add Lens embeddables #57499)
• Lens by Value Add Lens to Dashboard without saving first #67356
• Create new fields on the fly [Kibana] creating new fields on the fly (Lens, Discover etc..) #33800
• CSV upload Advertize CSV upload in Lens and Discover #91154
• "Show underlying data" should pick up visualization & saved search filters #72637

[elasticmachine]

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

[AlonaNadler]

Moved them all into the content above. - Tim

[mbondyra]

One more issue here could be allowing lens to appear in 'Recently viewed'.

[bradquarry]

Upvote from a team at Verizon who is asking for Allow creation of visualization from saved search .

[timductive]

Closing old meta issues in favor of more granular, current meta issues