Clone button

[stacey-gammon]

• Get rid of [ ] Save as new checkbox button.
• Add a Clone top nav button

Should be done across the board. At least for visualizations, searches, dashboards, probably timelion and graph too.

cc @alexfrancoeur

[cjcenizal]

I think we can keep the "Save as new" functionality, and surface "Clone" in View mode. I think the user's flow would be:

1. Open Dashboard "Network traffic, February 2017".
2. Say to themselves, "Oh I need to create one of these for March now."
3. Click "Clone" (or "Duplicate" in the wireframe below), which opens a modal prompting for a new name, and name it "Network traffic, March 2017."
4. Click "Edit", edit the time range, and then click "Save."

This seems more intuitive then first trying to edit the February dashboard.

Also, I just want to note that we briefly mentioned Clone functionality in #10248, but that issue looks like it may be outdated (?).

[stacey-gammon]

Yea I just decided they should be split apart with #10248 relying on this, but not the other way around.

I think a Clone button makes sense in View mode. I still don't really like the save as new checkbox but could live with the proposed functionality since it's how it is now. I suppose the checkbox gives them the ability to specify the new name.

[alexfrancoeur]

@cjcenizal I don't mind this approach. I agree with @stacey-gammon in regards to the save as new checkbox. I'm not a fan of it either.

In the usability test we had with Jeff I asked him to create a dashboard with all the same tiles as the first, make some modifications, add a new visualization and save with a new name. He immediately clicked into edit mode and paused looking for a save as or clone button. Then he remembered that save had a save as new dashboard option. From the session and my own experience, the save as a new dashboard checkbox seems to be a learned behavior. clone wherever it is - is pretty self explanatory.