Grafana offers this and I think it's a nice and easy way to jump back out of a selected time range. Currently to do that you need to go through 2-3 clicks, which is kinda annoying.
Not sure what the best way to implement it would be, but maybe just jump back to the next highest level?
markwalkom
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I'm confused how this is different from using the back button. As I'm sure you are aware any change that you make to the time filter is added to the browser history, and you just need to hit the back button to go back.
spalger
on 17 Nov 2015
The back button on a browser is not immediately obvious to new users, especially since we spent all of 3 telling them _not_ to do this. Plus we don't document this method with 4 anyway (or I cannot find it).
I still reckon it'd be nice UX.
markwalkom
on 17 Nov 2015
+1
Or simply buttons "backward" or "forward" to go to the next timerange, instead of zoom out to reselect another near timerange
lefebsy
on 1 Mar 2016
Clicking back, does back for the last change made. Maybe many changes have been made, and you do not want to undo all of the changes made, but do want to zoom out (in time scale). Additionally the last zoom-in you did may be much more than the zoom-out you want: i.e. a zoom-out button creating 200% of the time range currently viewed, centred around the current centre of time could be much more useful than just "back to the previous time range"
robin13
on 13 May 2016
+1
I agree the back button is not obvious for new users. As explained above going back to previous time range is not the same functionality as zooming out from the current selected time range. A + and - symbol for sure is something end users will understand what to expect to happen.
kurtvermeersch
on 13 Jul 2016
+1
Controless
on 15 Jan 2017
+1 especially this feature is missing in embedded dashboards
jurek7
on 18 Aug 2017
I've seen this request pop up a few times. I think there are a few ways we can address it. @Bargs @snide can we take this into account as we begin to design the timepicker?
@nreese maybe this something we should consider for the time based input control as well
alexfrancoeur
on 9 Nov 2017
@lukasolson had implemented this at one point but there were concerns the +/- icons didn't convey the purpose of the functionality clearly (keep me honest if I'm misremembering @lukasolson).
Bargs
on 9 Nov 2017
For those not aware, the ML plugin still has its original zoom in/out buttons as it helps with the navigation of our results.
If something similar is added to the timepicker we can retire these buttons as we're adding them in a rather hacky fashion with jquery.
jgowdyelastic
on 9 Nov 2017
@Bargs That's correct, but we were also uncertain this was the place that made the most sense for the buttons.
lukasolson
on 9 Nov 2017
This is really a duplicate of https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/9434, except that issue also mentions the "zoom in" capability, so I'm closing this one.
lukasolson
on 9 Nov 2017
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Clicking back, does back for the last change made. Maybe many changes have been made, and you do not want to undo all of the changes made, but do want to zoom out (in time scale). Additionally the last zoom-in you did may be much more than the zoom-out you want: i.e. a zoom-out button creating 200% of the time range currently viewed, centred around the current centre of time could be much more useful than just "back to the previous time range"