# How to modify legend values of dashboards using Kibana 4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-modify-legend-values-of-dashboards-using-kibana-4/25214>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 9, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-modify-legend-values-of-dashboards-using-kibana-4/25214 "2015-07-09T07:45:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Aymen\_Zaghouani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aymen\_Zaghouani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aymen_Zaghouani)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-modify-legend-values-of-dashboards-using-kibana-4/25214/1 "2015-07-09T07:45:54Z")

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When I create a Filters and/or Ranges aggregations, the description shown in the visualisation automatically seems to default to the filter text or range. As this can potentially be a complex string containing field names, it would be very useful if it was possible to specify a display text for each filter and/or range.

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-modify-legend-values-of-dashboards-using-kibana-4/25214/2 "2015-07-09T12:54:11Z")

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Agreed! Addressed in Master, coming in 4.2 😄

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/2245>

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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 6, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-modify-legend-values-of-dashboards-using-kibana-4/25214/3 "2017-07-06T14:16:45Z")

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