Kibana plugin to select a subset of search results displayed as a result of passing a query to search bar in the Discover tab and then displaying the selected results in another window

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I have a use-case in KIbana to develop that allows a user to select a subset of search results displayed as a result of passing a query to search bar in the Discover tab and then displaying the selected results in another window.

To implement this I thought of doing something like:

  1. Add a button/icon on the navbar to allow opening of a new kibana window when clicked. This I am able to do with the help of navbarExtensions, as explained here Dev on Kibana plugin: navbar icon disappear when switching tabs .

  2. Have a checkbox appear in the Discover tab results section with each document result using which I can select a subset of results and pass their document id's to open another window of Kibana when the user clicks the icon/button on the navbar.

Currently, I am not able to find a way to do step 2. So I have following questions regarding it.

  1. Is it even possible to include something like a checkbox to the Discover UI programmatically?
  2. If yes, what a the ways to do it? Plugin or API? Is there a document or any link where I can more about it?
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Hi @Surabhi_Lodha,

If you develop a plugin, you won't be able to change the UI of other plugins, except for some predefined extension points (such as navbar).

So adding a checkbox to the documents-listing in Discover, is not something you'd be able to do from a 3rd party plugin.

What you're looking at IMHO is a new feature. I'd consider adding a new feature request for Kibana. https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new first. It will also get you feedback from some of the maintainers, who are more knowledgeable about Discover and will better understand the effort involved.

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Thank you for your response.
I understand what you are saying. So is it possible to get the json data in a new browser in order to display it in customised format

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You can always get to the raw JSON request/response by expanding the little grey arrow on the Discover page under the histogram. I has options to show both the original request and response of the query.

You can use that to display the results in a separate page.

Thx,

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Thank you Thomas.
Worked for me.