Enable filter transforms more broadly

[nicolaskruchten]

I can understand that aggregate and split aren't supported by all trace types but surely filter and sort are possible almost everywhere? https://community.plot.ly/t/brand-new-chart-editor-at-https-plot-ly-create/13362/9

[bhogan-mitre]

I'll second this. I recently tried the table trace type (which is pretty nice by the way!), and naturally the next thing I was looking for was to filter and/or sort it.

Would that require breaking out TRANSFORMABLE_TRACES into those that are eligible for filtering vs. aggregating, and updating GraphTransformsPanel accordingly? I can see that getting that getting a little messy.

[bhogan-mitre]

I was looking at this again yesterday. Through a custom editor, I made a copy of TRANSFORMABLE_TRACES that included, e.g. scatterpolar, scatterpolargl, and barpolar. Filtering worked fine on that and I was pleasantly surprised it was that easy. (I did not try to aggregate or split, which may break down.) But there appears to be nothing technical in the way of filtering additional trace types. Do you have any additional thoughts on this one @nicolaskruchten @dmt0?

[bhogan-mitre]

I just tried the same trick of adding table to TRANSFORMABLE_TRACES and it did not work out of the box the way it did for polar plots. It brought up the transforms panel, but nothing happened upon clicking 'Filter'. I haven't looked into the details yet, but I just wanted to put in another plug for this.

Could you comment on what it would take to enable additional transforms to be filtered?