# Formatting a field as a link to a filtered view on its value **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 16, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-a-field-as-a-link-to-a-filtered-view-on-its-value/284357 "2021-09-16T05:46:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![malsioufi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@malsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malsioufi)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-a-field-as-a-link-to-a-filtered-view-on-its-value/284357/1 "2021-09-16T05:46:14Z")
I have a field in my index called "labels" that contains an array of strings that is used as tags for the documents. Is there a way to format this field as a link that when a user click on it in the Discover area it links to Discover view with a filter set to the clicked value? So if a document has the value "testing" and the user clicks on it, it will filter the view with "lables:testing" or so. ---
**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-a-field-as-a-link-to-a-filtered-view-on-its-value/284357/2 "2021-09-16T07:25:12Z")
Hi In Discover you can create filters by values, why would you need a separate view for it? ![Bildschirmfoto 2021-09-16 um 09.24.48](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/6/8662ee80d3a3ef920757dc623b5e36df907c2c7f.png) Best, Matthias ---
**Author:** ![malsioufi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@malsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malsioufi)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-a-field-as-a-link-to-a-filtered-view-on-its-value/284357/3 "2021-09-20T06:46:14Z")
Hi, As I mentioned in my question, I want to use the field as a link to filter on it. Just like when we do in visualizations when you click on a bar in a bar-chart it filters the dashboard on that specific value. I want to do the same thing with my mentioned "labels" field, a clickable value that filter the view upon its value. In your example, if I click on "Men's Shoes" in the first row it will add this value as a filter and show only documents with this category. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-a-field-as-a-link-to-a-filtered-view-on-its-value/284357/4 "2021-09-22T00:25:53Z")
What is the field mapped as? ---
**Author:** ![malsioufi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@malsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malsioufi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-a-field-as-a-link-to-a-filtered-view-on-its-value/284357/5 "2021-09-25T06:35:59Z")
it is a list of keywords, so basically it is keyword field. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-a-field-as-a-link-to-a-filtered-view-on-its-value/284357/6 "2021-09-27T00:12:27Z")
I don't think you can do that on an array unfortunately. Otherwise you could have used [URL templating | Kibana Guide [7.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/url_templating-language.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-a-field-as-a-link-to-a-filtered-view-on-its-value/284357/7 "2021-10-25T00:12:30Z")
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