# How to display your contents via a drop-down in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-your-contents-via-a-drop-down-in-kibana/137004>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 22, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-your-contents-via-a-drop-down-in-kibana/137004 "2018-06-22T09:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![suchetacateina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@suchetacateina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suchetacateina)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-your-contents-via-a-drop-down-in-kibana/137004/1 "2018-06-22T09:56:48Z")

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Hi,  
i wanted to display / visualize the graphs and count based on the selection from a drop-down . I found out that a drop-down is only available in kibana 6.1. So when used kibana 6.1, i want to know how can i customize 2 drop downs with the following values -

Say my System Drop-down has values --\>  
Karza  
LMS  
LOS  
Highmark

And my Choice drop-down-  
success  
error  
both

And when i select them i get answer in tabular format.

Here is what i get in the current drop-down-  
aerospike  
kubernetes  
mongodb  
zookeeper ,etc.

 ![elastic-dropdown](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/8/5804d98142dbd1ce9598d4bc1c275e0aae0c9366.png)

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**Author:** ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-your-contents-via-a-drop-down-in-kibana/137004/2 "2018-06-22T16:10:40Z")

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Those are [input controls](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/add-input-controls.html). The linked documentation should explain how to use them. You'll need to select an index pattern and field for each control which will populate the options.

Does that help?

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**Author:** ![suchetacateina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@suchetacateina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suchetacateina)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-your-contents-via-a-drop-down-in-kibana/137004/3 "2018-06-25T06:45:33Z")

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Hey Chris..

I added my index and the following options -

 ![visualization_kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/d/fd4ddd26e853fa87d2fb2a00ced511fb1ad2165a.png)

But there is no output on selection. I was expecting a graph or charts ..but nothing as such. What is the benefit of visulization ?

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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:** [July 23, 2018, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-your-contents-via-a-drop-down-in-kibana/137004/4 "2018-07-23T06:45:34Z")

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