Exclude global Querystring for Visualizations

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Hey guys,

just a simple question form an former Kibana3 user:

In Kibana3 you had the possibility the select which global dashboard queries should apply to each visualization/panel, is it possible to do the same in Kibana4 dashboards?

So that the visualization A and B use the global dashboard querystring, but visualization C is just using the settings, that are configured in the visualization itself.

Thanks in advance

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Yes. When you create the visualization, you can link it to an index (which will utilize the search bar for ad-hoc queries) or you can select a saved search, which will pin the vis only to that search. In dashboard, you can mix-and-match both types of visualizations.

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Thanks for taking time to do such an detailed answer.

Unfortunately thats not working, as it should - my example:

First im gonna save the search:

Next im gonna create an visualization and link it to the "Netflow" search:

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Creating a Dashboard with the "*" Query work:

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But as soon as i apply a query which excludes the saved search, the visualization is not showing results:

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Am I missing something?

Thanks

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Any ideas on this?

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Yeah, you're right. I don't think it quite works as expected. The global filter still applies to all dashboards.

Please feel free to file an issue - I think the scenario makes sense: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues

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Regarding to https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5324 it seems like this is intended behaviour, so this post can be closed.

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