# Dashboard refresh is not working without data widget on it

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-refresh-is-not-working-without-data-widget-on-it/160429>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 11, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-refresh-is-not-working-without-data-widget-on-it/160429 "2018-12-11T19:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Chernecov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sergey_chernecov/32/34705_2.png) [@Sergey\_Chernecov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sergey_Chernecov)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-refresh-is-not-working-without-data-widget-on-it/160429/1 "2018-12-11T19:08:08Z")

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Hi.

If I have only Vertical Bar visualizations on my dashboard **button refresh** and **stop-play** is not refreshing the dashboard:  
 ![1-dashboard-wo-saved-search](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/5/354f96d2672b00ee18f9cb75d361a007ff2a0c96.gif)

Dashboard starts to work only if I have at least one saved search on it.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/6/46cc32cc3c97b43ee8e211aa3fda429efa44cecc.png)

Kibana version: **6.5.1**

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**Author:** ![jen-huang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jen-huang/32/74327_2.png) [@jen-huang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jen-huang)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-refresh-is-not-working-without-data-widget-on-it/160429/2 "2018-12-11T22:34:26Z")

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Hi, are there any console errors present? This issue may warrant a [Github bug report](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Bug_report.md).

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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Chernecov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sergey_chernecov/32/34705_2.png) [@Sergey\_Chernecov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sergey_Chernecov)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-refresh-is-not-working-without-data-widget-on-it/160429/3 "2018-12-12T09:08:59Z")

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No errors in console.

The problem is even bigger - if you have dashboard with multiple visualizations, the only one that is refreshed after button Refresh is pressed is Saved Search visualization (basically dataset). Other visualizations are not refreshed....

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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 9, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-refresh-is-not-working-without-data-widget-on-it/160429/4 "2019-01-09T09:09:05Z")

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