Export button doesn't export everything

[jpcarey]

There seems to be an inconsistency in the UI for exporting dashboards:

The screenshot below exports only the dashboard. This is not useful, since a dashboard requires dependent items such as visualizations.

The screenshot below exports dashboard and dependent visualizations, but only because the search that was provided matched all relevant items based upon their naming.

The screenshot below shows that with no search used, clicking the top 'export' button - it exports only the non-paged items from the 'Dashboards', 'Searches', and 'Visualizations' tab. This export produced 148 objects (34 dashboards + 14 searches + 100 visualizations). If the top 'Export' button was meant to export everything, this is a major limitation - as there is no way to page to the missing 113 items from the visualizations tab.

[lukasolson]

The top button should actually export everything, regardless of what your search results are, and regardless of paging. This is definitely a bug.

Currently, exporting an object (dashboard/search/visualization) only exports the data surrounding the object itself. We should probably open an enhancement issue that deals with exporting all of an object's dependencies (for example, a dashboard could include all associated visualizations).

[lukasolson]

Oh, looks like it already exists: #4489

[jpcarey]

If the top button will be export everything, I think some extra text in the UI would go a long way in allowing an end user to understand the difference between the two buttons that are both labeled 'Export'

[lukasolson]

Agreed, maybe "Export All" or "Export Everything". What do you think?