Sort terms by filter ratio column

[flash1293]

A terms column can be sorted by the value of another column. This is done server side and can change which terms actually occur in the resulting table because of the size limit. This does not work for filter ratio columns because they are calculated on the client side.

We could do a client side sorting for filter ratio columns, but then we would need a second sorting column for the server side sorting to decide which terms to show if there are more terms than the size limit.

Another possibility is to simply not allow sorting by filter ratio columns and only enable this by editing the expression directly.

ping @chrisdavies @wylieconlon @timroes @cchaos

[cchaos]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ haha --- Doesn't seem like I can contribute much to the conversation there.

[flash1293]

@cchaos Maybe I pinged you prematurely - I did so because I don't know how to make it clear in the UI that there are two types of sortings (client side and server side) if we follow this approach.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app (Team:KibanaApp)

[wylieconlon]

I'm going to close this issue since we don't actually have a filter ratio implementation.