Visualisations in a dashboard can no longer be opened in new tab

[tommikiviniemi-srs]

Kibana version:
6.4.1

Elasticsearch version:
6.4.1

Describe the bug:

Hi. We recently updated from Kibana 6.0.0 to 6.4.1 and there seems to be a regression with the dashboards edit view - earlier versions of Kibana allowed to cmd+click the Edit Visualization button to open visualisations in a new tab. This was a great way to open several visualisations at a time.

Kibana 6.4.1 no longer allows this, which makes it an extreme chore to multi edit visualisations.

Could the old behaviour be re-enabled? This has a large impact on workflows.

Thanks.

[timroes]

cc @stacey-gammon
this would require actions to register a link instead of a callback for context menu items, and we would even check if the EUI context menu is able to present links instead of buttons. I see the use-case for this, and we should check if we want to implement that.

[odmby]

+1

[tommikiviniemi-srs]

The problem is that I often have to copy paste some queries between different widgets or make one small change to several widgets, so I used to just open all the relevant ones in different tabs.

Now I have to open one, copy what I need, go back, find the widget again, open the next one, paste/edit it, go back again etc. It's almost impossible to do this without errors, frustration or in any timely manner. I can't stress enough how large an impact this has on workflows.

Thanks for considering this.