# How to manually add values in dropdown control

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manually-add-values-in-dropdown-control/307742
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 21, 2022, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manually-add-values-in-dropdown-control/307742 "2022-06-21T09:33:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![RahulWagh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rahulwagh/32/107334_2.png) [@RahulWagh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RahulWagh)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2022, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manually-add-values-in-dropdown-control/307742/1 "2022-06-21T09:33:26Z")

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I am populating field values in control filter but actually on the dashboard for this control filter I want to show specific values not all. I am using Kibana v7.17

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### Author: ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manually-add-values-in-dropdown-control/307742/2 "2022-06-28T11:03:24Z")

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Controls are fully driven by data in the data view they refer to. It's not possible to manually add new data to them outside the indices referred by the data view.

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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: [November 4, 2022, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manually-add-values-in-dropdown-control/307742/3 "2022-11-04T08:35:55Z")

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