[Dashboard] Allow Authors to Limit Interactivity

[cjcenizal]

Purpose

Dashboard authors want to be able to limit which functionalities are accessible to the end user / analyst.

Capabilities

Dashboard authors should be able to disallow users from doing the following.

• Dashboard panel moving and resizing this is already available with view / edit mode
• Changing the time range
• Filtering the dashboard from the top bar
• Filtering the dashboard via UI Actions (like chart clicking / brushing)
• Panel UI actions (inspect, full screen)
• Querying (optionally showing the search bar)

Related issues

• Timepicker as part of embedded dashboard #2739
• Make it possible to disable all interaction with an Embeddable #9220
• Allow "locking" of dashboards/visualization/searches #1610
• Pluggable sharing interface #7320
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-move-panels-on-kibana5-shared-dashboards/67460/7
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-filter-bar-from-kibana/110794
• Remove ability to pin filters in embedded dashboards #5056 (customize ability to pin filters)

[riccardone]

Is there any plan to implement this feature?
For me it's the possibility of disallow filtering in embedded iframes

[stacey-gammon]

@riccardone we have it on our tentative schedule, but things have been known to shift around. It's definitely something we want to add, just a matter or prioritizing among many other features we want to tackle as well.

[paolomangano]

Is there any news about this feature priority?
For me it's generating dashboard with dynamic filtering and disallowing filtering in embedded frames too.
Thanks.

[stacey-gammon]

Another request for a share link option to convert relative to absolute times: #1348

[stacey-gammon]

Another option for share link creation to show or hide the time filter: #5630

[that-dom]

I'm onsite doing a consulting engagement and this customer is interested in this issue. They already use an embedded dashboard for their custom web app. Without the date picker and search bar, we're going to have to great creative for the time being.

[teomurgi]

Interested in options to include time picker in embeddable link and also in an option to hide "add filter" section

[siben168]

really interested in this sort of features! +1

[mfinholt]

+1 on this. Specifically, i would like to disable the filter management bar on embedded charts. Would another option be to pass in a URL param that hides that bar? I don't mind extra work to make this happen. Thanks

[remmeier]

embed_dashboard_timepicker.zip

FYI: for anybody interested, you can look at the attached ZIP. We make use of it to hide the datepicker. This gives us a minimal visualization without anything around it.

[balintbekefi]

@remmeier seems like that plugin no longer works with the latest versions of Kibana... It relied on displaying something that was hidden in the code with CSS; now they've removed the hidden code.

[shubham184]

+1 for this feature, i can practically view all the fields in an index which becomes a high security risk

[nimaansary]

+1

[littlebeer]

+1

[bushjavier]

+1

[baigawan]

+1

[grantmcd]

+1

[bhavinshah1086]

+1

[axxyhtrx]

+1

[LukePrior]

+1 for the feature

[edulix]

+1

[yeich]

+1 - this feature would be very useful.

[ThomThomson]

Likely, the way this will be exposed is via a setting on the dashboard level that allows for the filters, time range & query bar to be hidden while in view mode. Then, that dashboard will always be locked down that way for analysts regardless of whether they are viewing the Dashboard through an iframe or through the Kibana UI.

In order to do this correctly, we will need to disable some UI actions, and add some functionality to the new Controls feature to allow the dashboard author to specify exactly what level of interactivity they want this dashboard to have. This is why I've given this an loe:multi-week estimation.

[drewdaemon]

+1 https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-apply-filter-s-to-all-the-embedded-iframe-visuals/340071/3

[ThomThomson]

Closing this in favour of two more detailed issues which should cover the use cases mentioned here:

Allowing the author to hide specific filter pills: #26310
Allowing the author to hide parts of the unified search bar: #137560