# Doubt on how dashboard is selecting the index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doubt-on-how-dashboard-is-selecting-the-index/231541>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 7, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doubt-on-how-dashboard-is-selecting-the-index/231541 "2020-05-07T12:48:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![manojkrishna561994](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@manojkrishna561994](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/manojkrishna561994)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doubt-on-how-dashboard-is-selecting-the-index/231541/5 "2020-05-07T15:50:51Z")

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Thanks Anton it clarified.

Reg the dashboard itself im facing issue when i did management\>export [full]dashboard\> dashboard.ndjson and im trying to re-upload it using REST API's then im getting 400 error like `Child attribute is not accepted or value should be in array`. Could you pls help in resolving this issue.

Here is the link for the question asked. [Issue with reusing dashboard on another index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-reusing-dashboard-on-another-index/231289/3)

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