Unable to unlink saved searches in vis editor

[ycombinator]

Kibana version: master (at fa6d074).

Elasticsearch version: master (at elastic/elasticsearch@c8f241f)

Server OS version: Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan)

Browser version: Chrome 54.0.2840.98 (64-bit)

Browser OS version: Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan)

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): from source

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:

I created a visualization from saved search. That worked as expected. Then I tried to unlink the saved search from the visualization. I expected the visualization to change but it didn't.

Looking at the request in the spy panel, it appears that the search query being sent to Elasticsearch is not updated once the saved search is unlinked. It continues to contain the query from the saved search.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a saved search.
2. Create a visualization from the saved search.
3. Unlink the saved search from the visualization.

Errors in browser console (if relevant):
None.

Provide logs and/or server output (if relevant):
None.

[ycombinator]

Labeling as P3 as users could workaround this by not starting the visualization from the saved search. Feel free to change, @epixa @tbragin @ppisljar @thomasneirynck.

[ycombinator]

Actually, I'm not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior. When the saved search is unlinked, the filters from it are still shown (right below the search bar), which is consistent with the query shown in the spy panel.

I guess I expected all filters that were part of the saved search to go away as well, upon unlinking, but maybe that's not what other users expect. Relabeling as "discuss" for now.

[epixa]

Unlinking should have no effect on the current search context, it should just unlink the current visualization from that saved search so that a user can start making changes to it.

[ycombinator]

Thanks. In that case, this is all working as expected. Closing.

[tbragin]

We are tracking a separate ER to change a saved search on an existing visualization: #5060