# Creating drop-down lists

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-drop-down-lists/100185>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 12, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-drop-down-lists/100185 "2017-09-12T09:37:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![abhisek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@abhisek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhisek)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-drop-down-lists/100185/1 "2017-09-12T09:37:02Z")

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Hi ,

I am using Kibana v5.5 and I'm thinking to add a drop-down list to filter out the data on basis of selected field.

Please let me know, how to achieve this in Kibana.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-drop-down-lists/100185/2 "2017-09-12T09:46:31Z")

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You will need to build a custom visualisation, there is nothing native at the moment.

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**Author:** ![abhisek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@abhisek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhisek)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-drop-down-lists/100185/3 "2017-09-13T05:14:21Z")

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Can you help me on how to start with building a custom visualization. ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-drop-down-lists/100185/4 "2017-09-13T09:59:12Z")

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That's not really my area of knowledge, sorry.

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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:** [October 11, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-drop-down-lists/100185/5 "2017-10-11T09:59:17Z")

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