Support report generation for individual panels in a Dashboard

[cjcenizal]

This would solve the issue described in https://discuss.elastic.co/t/csv-reporting-from-saved-search-from-dashboard-flow/127504:

I have a dashboard with some visualizations and saved search. I want to export as csv the saved search results but i can't do it in comfortable way:

1. It is not possible to do this from dashboard directly - i have to manually open saved search in discover tab, or press the cog menu on saved search during the dashboard edit. And anyway i have to manually add the same filters and queries used in dashboard to the saved search.

2. It is not possible to export data from saved search until it is saved again with all added filter\queries. So here are two more issues - either i save this search as new each time i have to export (generating a pile of disposable saved searches), or i simply overwrite my saved search - breaking it for all other users of the same dashboard.

One solution would be to surface a context menu in each panel which can be accessed while in View mode. The context menu would contain a "Generate report" option which would open a modal of flyout.

[fbaligand]

Yes, this enhancement would be great!

That is particularly useful to let users with "Dashboard only" role, to download CSV from a Saved Search on a dashboard. Without this feature, they can't download CSV data.

Thus, from a UX point of view, it lets to easily create a Saved Search CSV report directly from dashboard app, as easily as with a visualization on a dashboard with the "Export" links.

[ataquino]

Hello. Is this possible in newer versions?

[cjcenizal]

@elastic/kibana-app Is this on the roadmap?

[0asp0]

I am also missing this feature hardly.

[tsullivan]

Hi, this feature was quietly rolled out in Kibana 7.3.0 from this PR: #34571

Currently it is wired off by default, and requires that a new setting is added to kibana.yml:
xpack.reporting.csv.enablePanelActionDownload: true

It is still an experimental feature, since it requires building up the entire CSV result in Kibana server memory, and asking client connections to stay open during the entire generation, which could take a long time.

That is particularly useful to let users with "Dashboard only" role, to download CSV from a Saved Search on a dashboard. Without this feature, they can't download CSV data.

Like I mentioned, this is still an experimental feature. That particular use case, I don't think has been explicitly tested.

[tsullivan]

Closing per #34571