# Dashboard: filter over multiple index patterns

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-over-multiple-index-patterns/198423>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 6, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-over-multiple-index-patterns/198423 "2019-09-06T12:20:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![slauth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@slauth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/slauth)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-over-multiple-index-patterns/198423/3 "2019-09-13T10:33:47Z")

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Ah, so I only have to choose a single index pattern in order to get the list of available fields filled? Guess I have misunderstood this.

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