Add to dashboard flyout redesign with New and From Library tabs

[florent-leborgne]

Summary

The Add menu popover is gone. Clicking Add now opens a single 'Add to dashboard' flyout with two tabs (New | From Library), featured items, a renamed 'Other visualizations' section, and Vega replacing 'Custom visualization'.

Why this needs docs: User-facing menu and flyout redesign that changes how every dashboard tutorial in docs describes adding panels.

Resources

• PR #264457 — [Dashboards] Redesign Add to Dashboard UX
• Product issue: [Dashboards] Change copy in Dashboard menu kibana#251032

Screenshots from PR

Availability

Channel	Details
Stack	v9.5.0
Serverless	May 4–May 8
Feature flag	None — active by default

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Suggested edits

Create a dashboard from the UI > Create a new dashboard / Add panels

• What the docs say: Tutorials describe selecting Add > From library or Add > Visualization from the application menu, which previously opened a popover.
• What to add: Update the workflow to reflect the new single 'Add to dashboard' flyout with New and From Library tabs. Remove references to the Add popover, document the two featured items at the top, and rename the section reference from 'Visualizations' to 'Other visualizations'. Applies from 9.5.0 and in serverless.

Add drilldowns > Create and set up the dashboards you want to connect / Create a URL drilldown

• What the docs say: Steps reference 'Select Add > From library in the application menu' and 'Select Add > Visualization in the application menu' with applies-to tags for 9.2+.
• What to add: Replace the popover-based 'Add > From library' and 'Add > Visualization' steps with the new flyout flow: click Add, then choose the From Library tab or pick a New panel type (such as Vega, formerly Custom visualization). Applies from 9.5.0 and in serverless.

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