Check sort:options for Discover default sort order#13708
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It is unfortunate that the sort:options advanced setting is now interpreted in two different places on two different abstraction layers (the discover controller and the courier SearchSource), but I can not see a unified solution either.
I wonder if a separate discover:sort:defaultOrder setting might instead be advantageous to prevent increased entanglement of the discover and courier layers.
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It's a fair point. I considered a separate setting, but I feared setting a precedent for further config inflation. |
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I tend to agree with @weltenwort here. I'd rather see a separate config option. And yeah, the existing |
I went back and forth on a lot of different solutions for this. Initially I thought it would make sense to just allow users to set a default saved search in Discover. There were some problems with that approach though. It would change the default workflow in Discover. Instead of starting with an unsaved search, users would be editing a saved search by default. I could see this leading to a lot of unintentional changes to the default. The settings from the default saved search also wouldn't carry over to new searches, which I think would be desirable most of the time. I also considered adding a new advanced setting for specifying a default sort field/direction. This kind of setting would make more sense at the index pattern level though. One field may not be valid across all index patterns. So I ended up going with the simplest solution. It solves the issue identified by the author of the linked issue and nothing more. If a sort order is specified in the existing sort:options advanced setting, we'll use that direction when sorting on the index pattern's timestamp field by default. Fixes elastic#5164
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That would still work, the Anyway, I still updated it to use a separate setting, take a look at let me know what you think. |
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How about just passing defaultOrder here, since that is the only property in use right now?
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* Check sort:options for Discover default sort order I went back and forth on a lot of different solutions for this. Initially I thought it would make sense to just allow users to set a default saved search in Discover. There were some problems with that approach though. It would change the default workflow in Discover. Instead of starting with an unsaved search, users would be editing a saved search by default. I could see this leading to a lot of unintentional changes to the default. The settings from the default saved search also wouldn't carry over to new searches, which I think would be desirable most of the time. I also considered adding a new advanced setting for specifying a default sort field/direction. This kind of setting would make more sense at the index pattern level though. One field may not be valid across all index patterns. So I ended up going with the simplest solution. It solves the issue identified by the author of the linked issue and nothing more. If a sort order is specified in the existing sort:options advanced setting, we'll use that direction when sorting on the index pattern's timestamp field by default. Fixes elastic#5164 * Create a new advanced setting instead of re-using sort:options * Just pass a default order
* Check sort:options for Discover default sort order I went back and forth on a lot of different solutions for this. Initially I thought it would make sense to just allow users to set a default saved search in Discover. There were some problems with that approach though. It would change the default workflow in Discover. Instead of starting with an unsaved search, users would be editing a saved search by default. I could see this leading to a lot of unintentional changes to the default. The settings from the default saved search also wouldn't carry over to new searches, which I think would be desirable most of the time. I also considered adding a new advanced setting for specifying a default sort field/direction. This kind of setting would make more sense at the index pattern level though. One field may not be valid across all index patterns. So I ended up going with the simplest solution. It solves the issue identified by the author of the linked issue and nothing more. If a sort order is specified in the existing sort:options advanced setting, we'll use that direction when sorting on the index pattern's timestamp field by default. Fixes elastic#5164 * Create a new advanced setting instead of re-using sort:options * Just pass a default order
* Check sort:options for Discover default sort order I went back and forth on a lot of different solutions for this. Initially I thought it would make sense to just allow users to set a default saved search in Discover. There were some problems with that approach though. It would change the default workflow in Discover. Instead of starting with an unsaved search, users would be editing a saved search by default. I could see this leading to a lot of unintentional changes to the default. The settings from the default saved search also wouldn't carry over to new searches, which I think would be desirable most of the time. I also considered adding a new advanced setting for specifying a default sort field/direction. This kind of setting would make more sense at the index pattern level though. One field may not be valid across all index patterns. So I ended up going with the simplest solution. It solves the issue identified by the author of the linked issue and nothing more. If a sort order is specified in the existing sort:options advanced setting, we'll use that direction when sorting on the index pattern's timestamp field by default. Fixes #5164 * Create a new advanced setting instead of re-using sort:options * Just pass a default order
* Check sort:options for Discover default sort order I went back and forth on a lot of different solutions for this. Initially I thought it would make sense to just allow users to set a default saved search in Discover. There were some problems with that approach though. It would change the default workflow in Discover. Instead of starting with an unsaved search, users would be editing a saved search by default. I could see this leading to a lot of unintentional changes to the default. The settings from the default saved search also wouldn't carry over to new searches, which I think would be desirable most of the time. I also considered adding a new advanced setting for specifying a default sort field/direction. This kind of setting would make more sense at the index pattern level though. One field may not be valid across all index patterns. So I ended up going with the simplest solution. It solves the issue identified by the author of the linked issue and nothing more. If a sort order is specified in the existing sort:options advanced setting, we'll use that direction when sorting on the index pattern's timestamp field by default. Fixes #5164 * Create a new advanced setting instead of re-using sort:options * Just pass a default order
I went back and forth on a lot of different solutions for this.
Initially I thought it would make sense to just allow users to set a
default saved search in Discover. There were some problems with that
approach though. It would change the default workflow in Discover.
Instead of starting with an unsaved search, users would be editing a
saved search by default. I could see this leading to a lot of
unintentional changes to the default. The settings from the default
saved search also wouldn't carry over to new searches, which I think
would be desirable most of the time.
I also considered adding a new advanced setting for specifying a default
sort field/direction. This kind of setting would make more sense at the
index pattern level though. One field may not be valid across all index
patterns.
So I ended up going with the simplest solution. It solves the issue
identified by the author of the linked issue and nothing more. If a sort
order is specified in the existing sort:options advanced setting, we'll
use that direction when sorting on the index pattern's timestamp field
by default.
Fixes #5164