# fieldFormatters inside visualizations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fieldformatters-inside-visualizations/87466>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 29, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fieldformatters-inside-visualizations/87466 "2017-05-29T14:38:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![valereds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@valereds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/valereds)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fieldformatters-inside-visualizations/87466/1 "2017-05-29T14:38:50Z")

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Hi all, is there a way to format field value with a custom fieldformatter plugin I've created inside the visualizations?  
My fieldFormatter applied to a string field works perfect inside the discover app, but when I make a visualization (for ex. tagCloud) I can't see result values customized but only the "real" values.  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fieldformatters-inside-visualizations/87466/2 "2017-05-30T04:58:00Z")

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This might be a bug, I will check with the visualization folks in the morning.

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**Author:** ![valereds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@valereds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/valereds)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fieldformatters-inside-visualizations/87466/3 "2017-05-30T09:34:08Z")

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ok, thank you @tsmalley.

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fieldformatters-inside-visualizations/87466/4 "2017-05-30T14:49:53Z")

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Verified this is a bug for the tag cloud visualization. I have opened an issue for it here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/12069](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/12069).

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**Author:** ![valereds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@valereds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/valereds)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fieldformatters-inside-visualizations/87466/5 "2017-05-30T16:26:59Z")

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Thank you Tyler, just found that also in the x-pack graph field formatters seems not to be used well.  
Hope this help.

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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:** [June 27, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fieldformatters-inside-visualizations/87466/6 "2017-06-27T16:27:14Z")

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