[Dashboard] [Meta] URL & Sharing Implementation Roadmap

[ThomThomson]

Dashboard URL Sharing

The following is a meta issue tracking all initiatives with the common goal of making dashboard URL sharing simpler, more robust, and more reliable.

By the end of this project, deliverables will include:

• A new share popover for dashboards which allows the user to choose which state gets into the URL. (Filters & Query vs all state)
• A system that uses locators to allow old dashboard shared URLs to be migrated
• A notification when a URL has been migrated which prompts users to update their bookmarks with the new URL in order to avoid migrations in the future.

Tasks / PRs

Better URL Share Options

• Build new share popover
• Insert only relevant state from the dashboard redux state into dashboard URL

Embeddable Migrations Clientside

• Write a QOL system to easily write embeddable migrations in common, and propagate them to both server and public
• Ensure all Lens embeddable migrations are registered in server and public
• Ensure all Maps embeddable migrations are registered in server and public
• Ensure all Visualize embeddable migrations are registered in server and public

Migrate to Locators

• Write new locator or modify existing locator for snapshot share usage
• Integrate Dashboard snapshot share feature with locator
• Ensure that embeddable migrations for Lens, Maps, and Visualize can be run by the locator clientside

URL Migration Notification

• Detect when a locator migration has been run
• Add a dashboard callout or intermediary page which includes a link to copy the newly migrated URL

Remove Legacy Migrations

• Migrate all custom clientside migration logic to a dashboard embeddable migration
• Remove all custom clientside migration logic from the dashboard plugin
• Ensure that older dashboards (pre 7.0.0) still load correctly

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-presentation (Team:Presentation)

[ThomThomson]

Closing this meta issue as the two main pieces - #139869 and #137200 are being resolved, and the rest has not been prioritized. If we decide to move forward with similar tasks in the future, we can reopen.