# Best way to visualize data in a table?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-visualize-data-in-a-table/69743>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 22, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-visualize-data-in-a-table/69743 "2016-12-22T07:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarcelHallmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MarcelHallmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcelHallmann)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-visualize-data-in-a-table/69743/1 "2016-12-22T07:35:00Z")

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Hi all,

what is the recommended way to display data in a table?  
Using Data Table visualization you have to define a metric, but if you just want to see all the events a metric makes no sense.  
Using a Search gives the events table, but then you have the problem, that you can't sort the string columns:  
`Visualize: Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [publisher] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory.`

But I don't think it is a good idea to enable fielddata on all field, isn't it?

Thanks and regards

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-visualize-data-in-a-table/69743/2 "2016-12-22T17:21:36Z")

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You're right, perhaps saved searches need a way to allow sorting on field that isn't in source. Would you mind opening an issue at GitHub? [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new)

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**Author:** ![MarcelHallmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MarcelHallmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcelHallmann)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-visualize-data-in-a-table/69743/3 "2016-12-23T07:26:51Z")

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Here you are:

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/9621>

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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:** [January 20, 2017, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-visualize-data-in-a-table/69743/4 "2017-01-20T07:27:01Z")

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