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[Lens] Options to trim axis labels/ticks for long text field values #100231
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Pinging @elastic/kibana-app (Team:KibanaApp) |
relates to #41418 as well |
cc @markov00 Do you see a good short term solution for this issue? |
@flash1293 not a very short term, but if you can open an issue on our repo we can push it in our roadmap with higher priority. Probably in the meantime you can fix this in lens by:
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@ghudgins what do you think about a quick fix like Marco suggested? We can implement this on the Lens side, but I guess we should make it configurable because it's probably not always the right behavior. |
@flash1293 @markov00 I think the extra axis formatting option for this sounds okay...enabled by default on new visualizations as I feel it's the most flexible/versatile option (strong hypothesis: truncating middle/end is better than not truncating in most cases). Only argument I can come up with against making it configurable is if we think future legend controls will have a completely different scheme and we'll have to "tow" this extra setting along...seems unlikely. |
When do we start truncating? It feels like the thing we want to optimize is label to chart ratio, but that would require font size and chart width information - not sure whether we can reliably get the first one. Although, as it's possible to turn off the behavior, we could also just go with a fixed number of characters. |
deleted my previous comment....had legends on the brain. I think we'd have to find a length that just mitigates this issue. Legends today chop at 30 characters when configured on the left/right size. We could consider doing a similar length here or go a bit longer since, at least on horiz bar, we have the space. Definitely like the |
+1 " truncate X bars names/wrapping would be even better. I had to drop lens just because the label names are too large I dont have a way to show it vertically and truncate" |
Yes, we are on it elastic/elastic-charts#1490 but this is a tricky problem, in particular with angled labels. We will add a bit more constraints on the layout in the future to allow simplified handling of those cases. |
Describe the feature:
When you are doing top values on a field for example url, it takes all the width in the chart
for example
Describe a specific use case for the feature:
We should provide a feature in lens, so that we can trim the axis labels, by truncating the value, perhaps user can specify the width that can be consumed by a label. User should be able to see the full value on hovering the truncated value in a tool tip.
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