docs: document progress bar cell decoration in Lens tables (#7430) - #7720
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Renames "Color by value" to "Cell decoration" and "Cell" to "Background" per Kibana PR elastic/kibana#272407, and documents the new Progress bar option (bar color, value range, alignment restriction) for numeric metric columns.
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| 3. In the field configuration, look for the **Color by value** option: | ||
| * For data tables: Select **Cell** or **Text** | ||
| 3. In the field configuration, look for the **Cell decoration** or **Color by value** (depending on your version) option: | ||
| * For data tables: Select **Background** or **Cell** (depending on your version), or **Text** |
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Minor clarity nit: "Select Background or Cell (depending on your version), or Text" reads ambiguously because two "or"s are stacked with a parenthetical in between, making it look like three loosely-joined options rather than "old/new label pair, plus Text". Consider clarifying the grouping, e.g.:
| * For data tables: Select **Background** or **Cell** (depending on your version), or **Text** | |
| * For data tables: Select **Background**, **Cell** (depending on your version), or **Text** |
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One little question, otherwise LGTM.
| - **Color by value**: Apply colors to cells based on their values, and choose which cell element to color: | ||
| - **None**: No coloring (default). | ||
| - **Cell**: Color cell backgrounds. | ||
| - **Cell decoration** or **Color by value** (depending on your version): Apply a color or a progress bar to cells based on their values, and choose which cell element to decorate: |
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This page also says "Depending on your Kibana version" in the tables.md doc. Would it make sense to align that language?
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This PR addresses #7430 with the following changes:
explore-analyze/_snippets/lens-tables-column-appearance-settings.md: Renames Color by value to Cell decoration and Cell to Background (inline, version-agnostic phrasing, since this is a simple rename), and documents the new Progress bar decoration for numeric metric columns: bar color (Single/Solid/Gradient, Gradient default), value range (Auto/Custom, including negative bounds), the Left/Right-only alignment restriction (with the auto-switch from Center), and the empty/null/NaN fallback to plain text. This snippet is shared by both Metrics settings > Appearance and Rows settings > Appearance on Build tables with Kibana, so one edit updates both. Progress bar is explicitly scoped to numeric metric columns in the text, since it isn't offered for row/breakdown columns.explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md: Updates the Assign colors to terms procedure's reference to the renamed control (Cell decoration/Color by value, Background/Cell), so the steps still match the current UI.explore-analyze/visualize/charts/tables.md: Updates the Color by value mention in the "Document comparison with custom ranges" example to Cell decoration.Resolves
Closes #7430