[Icebox] Dashboard Embed Mode

[ThomThomson]

Note
In an attempt to clean our backlog, the Presentation team will be making a new category of meta-issue that contains links to closed issues that have a legitimate impact, but cannot be prioritized for the foreseeable future. We will leave these icebox meta issues open as a place to track improvements that can be made to a category of feature.

Dashboard Embed Mode

The implementation of embed mode and dashboard iframe sharing functionality is in a half-finished, half-supported state. There are many issues pertaining to elements showing up in embed mode when they should be hidden, and vice versa. These issues are considered for an icebox for the following reasons:

1. We are currently supporting only two use-cases of iframe embedding. One involves embedding the entirety of Kibana into an iframe with all the features intact, and the other involves embedding a read-only view of a single dashboard. A lot of these issues fall into a third category, or an "in-between" of the functionality where users want to precisely control which elements show up and what do not.
2. For the time being, we are prioritizing adding functionality to the happy path of Dashboards to mirror some of what embedding is used for. This includes
   • Building a Navigation Embeddable to allow authors to set up home page dashboards or allow their users to quickly tab between different dashboards while maintaining context.
   • The ability to hide the unified search bar on dashboards.
   • The ability to create readonly filters so that Dashboard Authors have more control over what viewers can change on their dashboards.
   • Allowing Dashboard authors to limit the interactivity of their dashboards.

For these reasons, we cannot currently prioritize work that involves adding features or functionality to the iframe embed mode.

Telemetry

If we decide to begin working on changes to the iframe embedding capabilities, we will first need to understand the how users are using the functionality, therefor we should start with:

• Dashboards telemetry: track "share" options #131314

Icebox Contents:

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1. Most recent Safari version doesn't process shared Kibana dashboards in iframe due to CSP violation #150162
   Feature:Embedding Team:Presentation Team:SharedUX bug impact:low loe:large +6
2. [Dashboard][Embed] Snapshot version iframe throws React error when embedded in Safari #151338
   Feature:Dashboard Feature:Embedding Team:Presentation bug impact:medium loe:needs-research +6
3. iFrames displays intractable breadcrumbs to dashboards when given access to top menu #119208
   Feature:Embedding Team:AppServicesUx bug impact:medium loe:medium +5
4. Don't show search sessions access in iFrames #119168
   Feature:Dashboard Feature:Embedding Feature:Search Feature:Search Sessions Team:DataDiscovery Team:Presentation bug impact:medium loe:medium +9
5. Kibana shouldn't display warnings which give access to advanced settings in iFrames #110055
   Feature:Embedding Team:Presentation bug loe:large +4
6. Empty dashboard iframe should not give the access for editing to user #56252
   +0
   
7. [Drilldowns] Dashboard to dashboard drilldown is not maintaining iframe options #77243
   Feature:Drilldowns +1
8. [Maps] should disable filters if user shares maps in an iFrame without shared filter #89380
   Feature:Embedding Feature:Maps Team:Presentation bug impact:medium loe:large usability +7
9. Embedded iframe dashboard filtering does not work #91590
   impact:high +1
10. If you click edit on shared iframe and then click cancel - top nav bar, time filter and query bar disappears from the frame #87948
    Feature:Embedding Team:Presentation blocked bug impact:low loe:medium regression triaged +8
11. If you navigate to create maps from iFrame - top nav becomes invisible and you get locked in maps app #89208
    Feature:Embedding Feature:Maps Team:Presentation blocked bug impact:medium +6
12. Clicking refresh on iFrame after few user actions gives access to whole of Kibana #89362
    Feature:Embedding Team:Presentation blocked bug impact:low +5
13. Kibana Dashboard top menu position changes when embedding in iFrame #107172
    Team:Core enhancement +2
14. Setting to exclude the Header/Footer when generating iFrame code to share a Dashboard #121041
    Feature:Dashboard Feature:SharingURLs Team:Presentation impact:low loe:large +5
15. [Dashboard][Embed] Rendering the entire Kibana when accessing iframe in Firefox and Safari #151342
    Feature:Dashboard Feature:Embedding Team:Presentation bug impact:low loe:medium +6
16. ?embed=true with /app/dashboards#/list path hides Save button. No way to hide header but keep Save. #100300
    Feature:Dashboard Team:Presentation enhancement impact:low loe:medium +5
17. hide "select filters to apply" part from user when dashboards are embedded in webpages #94564
    Feature:Dashboard Feature:Embedding Team:Presentation impact:low loe:medium +5
18. Embed Snapshot with Short URL, ?embed=true not working to remove header and nav drawer #50107
    Feature:Dashboard Team:Presentation bug impact:medium loe:needs-research regression +6
19. [Dashboard] Problem when sharing a dashboard with a top nav menu #72597
    Feature:Dashboard Team:Presentation enhancement impact:medium loe:medium +5
20. Clear Session Storage from Anonymous User Access #164244
    Team:Presentation Team:Security enhancement +3

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