[Controls] Quickly enable or disable groups of filters

[Erikg346]

Describe the feature:

Provide a visualization button that changes between enabled or disabled configured filters.
This can be a toggle or active button,

Describe a specific use case for the feature:
Our users keep asking about applying buttons to our dashboards. This is synonymous with using a filter (I know what you'll say: why not just disable or enable filters). This button would make it easier for users to click on or off a switch.

I'm currently using Markdown, but it's looking more outdated.

[elasticmachine]

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

[ThomThomson]

@Erikg346 interesting idea! So the author would define groups of filters behind the scenes, and the user would be able to toggle those filters on and off with one click?

[Erikg346]

@ThomThomson yes exactly!

[ThomThomson]

We don't have an issue for this already, but we've been thinking of a custom control type where each option in the list is user-defined and can correlate to one or more author defined filters / queries.

This seems similar to that, but as a button or switch instead of a dropdown. The dropdown has an advantage of multiple user-defined groups, whereas the button / switch is quicker for the end-user.

[Heenawter]

@ThomThomson

but we've been thinking of a custom control type where each option in the list is user-defined and can correlate to one or more author defined filters / queries

With this idea + "Select all" , this would effectively cover the toggle idea I think - it would just be one extra click, assuming we embed the "Select all" button in the popover 👀

[nreese]

This is very similar to an old kibana plugin that provided authors with the ability to create a list of lucene queries that users could toggle as needed https://github.com/nreese/ez-query

[ThomThomson]

I think the other difference is that the author would be able to build filters into this toggle that go beyond just selections of field values.

For instance - what if the toggle contained filters on multiple fields from multiple data sources with AND/OR support. The author is basically providing a list of pre-configured views.

Just from a cursory glance at EZ-query this looks like the exact use case!

[ThomThomson]

Moving this to our icebox because it's a fairly rare use-case.