# Encoding and Decoding fields in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-and-decoding-fields-in-kibana/66202>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 16, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-and-decoding-fields-in-kibana/66202 "2016-11-16T06:02:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![anonymous4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@anonymous4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anonymous4)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-and-decoding-fields-in-kibana/66202/1 "2016-11-16T06:02:46Z")

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can be encode or decode fields in kibana? If not,then is there any plugin available for decoding field value in kibana?

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**Author:** ![BigFunger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigfunger/32/7323_2.png) [@BigFunger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BigFunger)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-and-decoding-fields-in-kibana/66202/2 "2016-11-16T16:35:47Z")

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I apologize, but I don't understand what you are asking. Can you go into more detail please? Provide an example if possible.

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**Author:** ![anonymous4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@anonymous4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anonymous4)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-and-decoding-fields-in-kibana/66202/3 "2016-11-16T16:52:38Z")

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@BigFunger thanks for the reply.... actually i have some fields in my elasticsearch index which has encoded data.  
I need to visualize these fields in kibana datatable and for that i have to decode the values of that [field.So](http://field.So) is there any way to do that?

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**Author:** ![BigFunger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigfunger/32/7323_2.png) [@BigFunger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BigFunger)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-and-decoding-fields-in-kibana/66202/4 "2016-11-16T16:57:57Z")

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I don't think that Kibana currently has functionality that would work for this use case. Is it possible that this data could be decoded at index time instead of at query time?

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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:** [December 14, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/encoding-and-decoding-fields-in-kibana/66202/5 "2016-12-14T16:58:02Z")

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