# How to make \_source field selectable in \[available fields\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make--source-field-selectable-in-available-fields/99504>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make--source-field-selectable-in-available-fields/99504 "2017-09-06T03:05:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_ax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@John\_ax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_ax)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make--source-field-selectable-in-available-fields/99504/1 "2017-09-06T03:05:31Z")

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hi ，I am using kibana 5.5, when adding [available fields] to [selected fileds] ,the \_source field gone, \_source filed was the original raw string input to elasticsearch, how can I make \_source field selectable in [available fields] again.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make--source-field-selectable-in-available-fields/99504/2 "2017-09-06T06:47:13Z")

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`_source` contains the full document that was indexed and is therefore not a field that can be aggregated or filtered on.

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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:** [October 4, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make--source-field-selectable-in-available-fields/99504/3 "2017-10-04T06:47:20Z")

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