Tracking issue: Multidimensional data pages

[marcelgerber]

Previous cycle's (2024.5) planning issue: #3877
Current cylce issue (2024.6): #4007

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Launch blockers

• mobile styles (e.g. dropdowns get cut off)
• nicer UI while switching indicators (nicer chart title; less jumpy UI below chart)
• ability to override metadata for single views (especially relevant for ones with multiple y-indicators)

Additional bigger things to fix soon after launch

• embedding MDDs
  • ... with and without select dropdowns
• integration into search
  • Enable dynamic thumbnail generation
• Ensure that there are no collisions between charts at /grapher/ and Mdims at /grapher/ #4029

More details (previous notes from Marcel)

• Various baking steps - e.g. SQL queries, hydration
  • Image metadata [4h] (see Data page FAQ images are not shown #3862)
  • relatedResearch
  • allCharts
  • Include thumbnail image
  • Provide canonicalUrl
  • Performance improvements / caching for baking
  • Bake some HTML by default - but what should it be?
  • ... anything else?
• Complete the config schema
• UI improvements [1.5d]
  • How to break "Configure the data" row if too wide? [2h]
  • Update page title as user navigates [1h]
  • Focus/hover states [2h]
  • Radio button padding is not clickable [0.5h]
  • Make changing between views less jumpy above-the-fold [2h]
  • Unavailable radio buttons should be disabled, not hidden [1h]
• Enhancing MDD config
  • Allow for overriding origin metadata / "About this data" section [4h]
• If there's no explicit title for a view, include var metadata's title in a dict so that the chart doesn't need to show indicator ID during the fetch

Could haves

• Non-ETL editing workflow (could be a bit like the explorer admin spreadsheet view)