# Creating kibana visualizations dynamically
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-visualizations-dynamically/75740
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 20, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-visualizations-dynamically/75740 "2017-02-20T12:58:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@aviral\_srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviral_srivastava)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-visualizations-dynamically/75740/1 "2017-02-20T12:58:51Z")
Hi,
I am using elasticsearch 2.1.0 and kibana 4.3.0.
To create visualizations dynamically, first I created it manually.
Then I exported the same visualization .json file from Settings--Objects--Visualizations.
The .json is as follows:
```
[
{
"_id": "company",
"_type": "visualization",
"_source": {
"title": "company",
"visState": "{\"type\":\"pie\",\"params\":{\"shareYAxis\":true,\"addTooltip\":true,\"addLegend\":true,\"isDonut\":false},\"aggs\":[{\"id\":\"1\",\"type\":\"count\",\"schema\":\"metric\",\"params\":{}},{\"id\":\"2\",\"type\":\"terms\",\"schema\":\"segment\",\"params\":{\"field\":\"company\",\"size\":5,\"order\":\"desc\",\"orderBy\":\"1\"}}],\"listeners\":{}}",
"uiStateJSON": "{}",
"description": "",
"version": 1,
"kibanaSavedObjectMeta": {
"searchSourceJSON": "{\"index\":\"t0hen\",\"query\":{\"query_string\":{\"query\":\"*\",\"analyze_wildcard\":true}},\"filter\":[]}"
}
}
}
]
```
Then I deleted the above visualization and reposted it again to .kibana index
```
POST http://xx.xx.xx.xx:9200/.kibana/visualization/company
{
"title": "company",
"visState": {
"type": "pie",
"params": {
"shareYAxis": true,
"addTooltip": true,
"addLegend": true,
"isDonut": false
},
"aggs": [{
"id": "1",
"type": "count",
"schema": "metric",
"params": {}
}, {
"id": "2",
"type": "terms",
"schema": "segment",
"params": {
"field": "company",
"size": 5,
"order": "desc",
"orderBy": "1"
}
}],
"listeners": {}
},
"uiStateJSON": {},
"description": "",
"version": 1,
"kibanaSavedObjectMeta": {
"searchSourceJSON": {
"index": "t0hen",
"query": {
"query_string": {
"query": "*",
"analyze_wildcard": true
}
},
"filter": []
}
}
}
```
But, I am getting following error:
```
{
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason": "failed to parse [visState]"
}
],
"type": "mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason": "failed to parse [visState]",
"caused_by": {
"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "unknown property [type]"
}
},
"status": 400
}
```
Can anybody please help.
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### Author:  [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-visualizations-dynamically/75740/2 "2017-02-20T13:59:52Z")
Hi @aviral_srivastava,
when posting the document to Elasticsearch, make sure to keep the `visState` field as one string with properly escaped nested quotes. From your sample `POST` body it looks like you've tries to post that field as an object while Elasticsearch expects a string.
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### Author:  [@aviral\_srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviral_srivastava)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-visualizations-dynamically/75740/3 "2017-02-21T06:09:32Z")
Thanks @weltenwort
You saved my time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-visualizations-dynamically/75740/4 "2017-03-21T06:10:12Z")
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### Author:  [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-visualizations-dynamically/75740/5 "2017-12-09T00:18:43Z")
For anyone else coming upon this thread, we now have an API for creating saved objects such as visualizations. See [Kibana visualization and foreach?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-and-foreach/110708/2) for more info.
CJ