Quick Upload Functionality

[wrathagom]

As Abe designs the Conveyor Plug-in UI a new piece of functionality has come up for discussion.

Conveyor is all about making it easier to get data into Kibana and to that narrative we want to drop the user onto a page that has two massive buttons: Upload File and New Conveyor The new conveyor will send them through the traditional flow of selecting the type of conveyor they want to create and filling out the parameters.

The Upload File option is all about ease and speed. So we need to discuss the best way to accomplish that.

The big question is: What do we want to happen when the user uploads a file?

• Do we create a flow?
  • Is that flow ephemeral?
  • Should the user have to name it?
• Do we send that file data through a generic file upload flow that is pre-loaded?
  • If we do this how does the user delete the data?
  • How do we manage mappings?

More discussion to come.