[Dashboard][Control] Allow a control to be ignored in lenses when the data view do not contain the control's field #172478
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enhancement
New value added to drive a business result
Team:Presentation
Presentation Team for Dashboard, Input Controls, and Canvas
Describe the feature:
On a dashboard, it would be useful to have an option in the Control settings to filter documents on the values selected in the Control panel for the associated field and the documents that do not have the field.
This would correspond to
field_name: selected_value or not field_name: *
for a Control onfield_name
.Describe a specific use case for the feature:
On a dashboard, I have lenses that use data from several data views. These data views have many common fields but some fields are only available in one data view. The users of the dashboards do not all know Kibana query language syntax so that using a filter in the query bar at top of the dashboard is not easy for them. A control with easy-to-select values suits them better.
In this case, the user could filter on some fields in the control panel and:
Without this option, when a value is selected in a control, lenses do not show anything when they rely on data views without the field.
Thus, I have to:
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