# Export Timelion Sheets for future use **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** timelion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-timelion-sheets-for-future-use/110503 "2017-12-06T11:05:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![stevedearl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@stevedearl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stevedearl)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-timelion-sheets-for-future-use/110503/5 "2017-12-07T08:35:26Z")
Hi Lee, For some reason I couldn't get the CURL 'search' to retrieve me the document via the console: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/6/c6bfacfd7c11015c6a8990660e21e23e9d4cf11c.png) However, saving the expression as a dashboard panel worked fine, and they then appear under the 'Visualizations' section of the Management/Saved Objects tab. This works, as it means all my searches, visualizations (including Timelion) and dashboards can be imported/exported in one go, and I can get back to the original tlion query by looking at the saved panel expression. I guess if I had one final comment, it might be a good enhancement in the future if the "Save entire Timelion sheet" option in Timelion made the sheet available within the Saved Objects/Visualizations area too as at the moment it's a little confusing that you save it, but it would not be present on an export so would be lost if you then re-imported the objects into a new Kibana instance (as I did). Thanks again for the rapid (and v. useful) advice, Steve --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-timelion-sheets-for-future-use/110503)._