# Are "prettier" Canvas URLs available?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-prettier-canvas-urls-available/193787>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** canvas\
**Created:** [August 5, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-prettier-canvas-urls-available/193787 "2019-08-05T12:08:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BennyInc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bennyinc/32/21751_2.png) [@BennyInc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BennyInc)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-prettier-canvas-urls-available/193787/1 "2019-08-05T12:08:39Z")

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When I create a Canvas workpad to share with others, I currently get a link like this:

[https://myserver/kibana/app/canvas#/workpad/workpad-e505656c-74c9-4180-9b8a-c6693bc9e069/page/1](https://myserver/kibana/app/canvas#/workpad/workpad-e505656c-74c9-4180-9b8a-c6693bc9e069/page/1)

The ID in there is large and clunky and becomes invalid if I have to export/import my workpad (I sometimes do that to manually fix issues with alignment).

For good old dashboards we had the option to use the title in the url like this:

[https://myserver/kibana/app/kibana#/dashboards?title=Availability](https://myserver/kibana/app/kibana#/dashboards?title=Availability)

This was very useful, and could also be combined with parameters like the embed=true for true fullscreen viewing:

[https://myserver/kibana/app/kibana#/dashboards?title=Availability&embed=true](https://myserver/kibana/app/kibana#/dashboards?title=Availability&embed=true)

I would also be happy to manually override the ID as stored in the json export - however that workaround doesn't work, as Kibana generates a new id on import.

Does anyone have ideas on overriding the id (possibly without modifying the doc in the .kibana index) or available short-urls?

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**Author:** ![tims](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tims/32/46750_2.png) [@tims](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tims)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-prettier-canvas-urls-available/193787/2 "2019-08-05T19:10:42Z")

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Hey @BennyInc,

Unfortunately there isn't an easy way to do this today in Canvas. I agree that this would be a super useful feature, please log this as an enhancement request on the kibana github repo. [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues)

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**Author:** ![BennyInc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bennyinc/32/21751_2.png) [@BennyInc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BennyInc)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-prettier-canvas-urls-available/193787/3 "2019-08-06T07:08:18Z")

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Thanks, I opened it: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/42662](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/42662)

And while browsing I just noticed that filterGroups are now available -- love the rapid development with which Canvas is getting improved 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-prettier-canvas-urls-available/193787/4 "2019-09-03T07:22:15Z")

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