# Field formatters not being applied inside Data Table

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-formatters-not-being-applied-inside-data-table/69269>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 16, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-formatters-not-being-applied-inside-data-table/69269 "2016-12-16T09:11:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-formatters-not-being-applied-inside-data-table/69269/1 "2016-12-16T09:11:09Z")

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Hi,  
I have a customized field formatter to format a field as a URL. When this field appears in a Search result table it is formatted as expected as a URL however when it's within a Data Table,the formatter is not applied. I realize that the Data Table cell click behavior is the filter by the cell criteria but I'd still like a certain field to be formatted as a URL so that I can right click --\> open in new browser tab.

Any workarounds to this?

Thanks,  
Sanjiv

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-formatters-not-being-applied-inside-data-table/69269/2 "2016-12-16T19:02:37Z")

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That seems like a bug. Can you provide screenshots? What version of Kibana are you using?

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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-formatters-not-being-applied-inside-data-table/69269/3 "2016-12-19T20:33:48Z")

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I'm on Kibana 4.6.1 I can post screenshots later. I can't move to Kibana 5.x as the Dashboard UI's are not acceptable yet. I posted about that is a separate thread ([Kibana 5.0 - Step back?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-0-step-back/66019/3?u=sjivan))

Thanks,  
Sanjiv

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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-formatters-not-being-applied-inside-data-table/69269/4 "2016-12-21T10:21:02Z")

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Here are the screenshots :  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/9/98cd9bb61c0e51c9108c476c7802adb491673140.png)

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b999b3a05aebbdf3a36e3102399217e0cc09396b.png)

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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 18, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-formatters-not-being-applied-inside-data-table/69269/5 "2017-01-18T10:21:36Z")

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