# Have kibana display nothing until a field is selected
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-kibana-display-nothing-until-a-field-is-selected/206861
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-kibana-display-nothing-until-a-field-is-selected/206861 "2019-11-06T21:07:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Andrew22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew22)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-kibana-display-nothing-until-a-field-is-selected/206861/1 "2019-11-06T21:07:10Z")
Hello,
Is it possible to have a Kibana dashboard display no information in its graphs/tables until the user selects one or more fields (in this case a device name) ?
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-kibana-display-nothing-until-a-field-is-selected/206861/2 "2019-11-18T18:35:14Z")
Hi,
This is not possible in Kibana as when you save visualizations they usually have data in them, hence the default state of the dashboard containing those visualizations.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/have-kibana-display-nothing-until-a-field-is-selected/206861/3 "2019-12-16T18:35:27Z")
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