# How to open URL fields in same window (Kibana 4.1)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-url-fields-in-same-window-kibana-4-1/1294>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 26, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-url-fields-in-same-window-kibana-4-1/1294 "2015-05-26T09:46:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Pieter\_Agenbag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pieter_agenbag/32/4562_2.png) [@Pieter\_Agenbag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pieter_Agenbag)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-url-fields-in-same-window-kibana-4-1/1294/1 "2015-05-26T09:46:37Z")

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I'm using kibana 4.1 and want to have URL formatted fields open in the same window/redirecting the window?

What I'm trying to achieve is : I have a Kibana dashboard .. one of the fields is for instance an IP.  
I'd like to be able to change the context of the dashboard to an IP focused one - different graphs and things - when a user clicks on an IP.

The URL formatting seemed ideal for this and I created a wrapper page which embeds different Kibana dashboards as an iframe depending on the parameters it is called with.... but now each time the user clicks on something a new page is opened \>\_\<

Plleeeeease say there is a sollution.  
Kibana is fantastic , but feels like everytime I want to do something 1degree off the path I just keep hitting my head against obstacles.

EDIT: I ended up recompiling kibana to take the target="\_blank" off the URL formatter and logging a request on git... of course this is a very hacky approach , but will hold me over till later.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-url-fields-in-same-window-kibana-4-1/1294/2 "2015-05-27T00:27:26Z")

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This is something that could potentially be handled using a config setting. I'd encourage you to raise an issue on Github on this 🙂

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**Author:** ![mbagatini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@mbagatini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mbagatini)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-url-fields-in-same-window-kibana-4-1/1294/3 "2016-10-04T07:43:35Z")

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> [@Pieter\_Agenbag](#):
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> Kibana is fantastic , but feels like everytime I want to do something 1degree off the path I just keep hitting my head against obstacles.

this.

Do we have another solution now other than recompiling Kibana?

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**Author:** ![Pieter\_Agenbag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pieter_agenbag/32/4562_2.png) [@Pieter\_Agenbag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pieter_Agenbag)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-url-fields-in-same-window-kibana-4-1/1294/4 "2016-10-04T08:27:13Z")

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Nope, not as far as I know. I checked the 5.0 beta but still couldnt find anything like that.

I'm still running my custom 4.1 build - just waiting for 5.0 release , then I'll have to port all my little patches into that again

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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, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-open-url-fields-in-same-window-kibana-4-1/1294/5 "2017-07-06T13:37:40Z")

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