I also felt the absence of this button

Oh. This bug was appear not so recent. Still fixing?

Available in:
3.4.2rc1 r72267
4.0.0alpha1 (trunk) r72268

it seems weird that this issue has jumped to "in documenting" without any comments on it being actually fixed, no subissues...
is there some jira bug here ?

palivoda: check Transitions tab.

<richlv> thank you for the response. the transitions are surprisingly silent - for example, compared to ZBXNEXT-210 , there are no changed string checks, no code review, no testing, no information on the direction taken, even.
has zabbix stopped doing all those things ?

Miks.Kronkalns There are multiple comments but they all are restricted to developers in this issue.

<richlv> very interesting. so it looks like now all the useful comments are secret as well, right ?
is it an indication of zabbix becoming increasingly more closed ?

vso no, just a mistake.

There are big improvements in maps in 3.4 that I find very helpful, but the lack of this feature kind of diminishes all the improvements. I hope it will be resolved and not only by changing the documentation.

Can we please get some confirmation this functionality will return to Zabbix?
I fear the current silence about the issue from dev side seems to imply it will be fixed by removing the option from the documentation.

This option actually has been put back rather than removed completely. I can point you to: What's new for 3.4.2.

Thank you for the confirmation!

martins-v,
Put back? Why, what was the reasoning behind? Did the changes made for network maps broke it? Or what was the reason?

okkuv9xh,
Perhaps someone from the Zabbix developers could comment on it. I can only describe the finished article as I'm not familiar with the background details.

martins-v, if it was a bug, wouldn't description of it be a better for for known issues, not "whatsnew" pages ?

There are more changes to macro expansion than just simply returning the button/option, which are now being added to documentation, that's why 'What's new'. Still, I agree that the absence of this option should be added to the known issues.

A related bug report: ZBX-12771

This is not completely solved, still in 3.4.2 it doesn't show anything if macro was used in map properties.

a new bugreport would be needed, as the work in this issue got merged for 3.4.2, which is out already

Done! Created ZBX-12790 - see ZBX-12784