editing an existing visualisation and saving will not ask for confirmation and creates duplicate

[derkcrezee]

When opening particular saved visualisations, when saving and overriding the visualisation, the UI will not ask me for a confirmation. Additionally, instead of overriding the saved visualisation, I now have two visualisations with the same name.

[rashidkpc]

It sounds like someone went hacking around in the object editor and changed the name of something.

[derkcrezee]

That could very well be the case, as I see that title in the URL and the title in the UI of the object settings is different. Is there any proper way to change the title of an visualisation, without having to recreate it and loosing all the references in the dashboards?

[pemontto]

I've seen this myself, is it sensible to allow a user to rename an object without updating the _id of the visualization as well?

This can be reproduced by creating a visualisation "Top-Devices", putting it on a dashboard then editing the title in the object editor "Top Devices - Modified Title". Now when you click the edit button and save the visualisation again there's no overwrite prompt because there's nothing stored under that _id "Top-Devices-Modified-Title":

Admittedly the object editor does say the feature is for advanced users, but it would be nice to have an option for it to update the _id when changing the title and avoid confusing situations like this:

[rashidkpc]

Replacing with #2735

[suraj-kamath]

Do we have a known-workaround for this issue ?