[Discover] Field statistics design issues

[andreadelrio]

• Improve layouts of expanded rows, the following are some examples of what we could improve

• Address the difference between keyword and text fields. Tooltips could be a way to do this but we should evaluate alternatives too

• Start using Eui's tokenKeyword for the keyword fields

• Consider an alternative location for the toggle Document View / Field Statistics. To do: explore placing it on the left sidebar

• Improve mini distribution charts. Some examples pointed out by internal testers

Nice to haves

• Switch the Lens graph that opens from Field Statistics from line to bars (to match the graph type that users see in Field Statistics) view (this suggestion came from internal testing)

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-data-discovery (Team:DataDiscovery)

[rayafratkina]

@andreadelrio wanted to share @teresaalvarezsoler's observation as a new user: the "field statistic" option should be placed under the chart, where the documents start since it is changing the documents view and not the chart view.
I think that makes a lot of sense. Have we considered that option?

[andreadelrio]

@andreadelrio wanted to share @teresaalvarezsoler's observation as a new user: the "field statistic" option should be placed under the chart, where the documents start since it is changing the documents view and not the chart view. I think that makes a lot of sense. Have we considered that option?

@rayafratkina Yes, this comment also came up when we did some internal testing. I made a proposal a while back for this which Quynh and her team seemed to be on board with. We agreed to wait til DataGrid was on by default so now it's a great time to consider doing this. Since vertical space is scarce in Discover I tried coming up with an idea where the switch wouldn't take up additional vertical space (at least in the Documents view). Let me know what you think of this.

[teresaalvarezsoler]

@andreadelrio this looks much better. I also think it provides the correct level of importance to the option.

By the way, I was expecting to find an option like that one to change from the JSON view to the table view. It was super difficult to realize that I should click in the small "+" icon in the fields in the left to get the columns. Also it's very painful to get a table view with all the fields in it since it's a lot of clicks!. I submit all the feedback in the form, I hope it helps.

[kertal]

Problem here is, that the latest changes in the EuiDataGrid made this area populated:

[andreadelrio]

Problem here is, that the latest changes in the EuiDataGrid made this area populated:

Ah, good point! I had an old screenshot. It looks like Unified Search will free up a bit of vertical space in Discover so we might be ok adding an extra row to include the toggle below the histogram.

[kertal]

@andreadelrio since this is labeled as complete, can we close this?

[timductive]

Another potential design issue to address: #136299