# How to save expanded view for search object in dashboard

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-save-expanded-view-for-search-object-in-dashboard/95075
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 30, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-save-expanded-view-for-search-object-in-dashboard/95075 "2017-07-30T12:37:39Z")
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### Author: ![Yong\_Zhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a183cd/32.png) [@Yong\_Zhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yong_Zhang)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-save-expanded-view-for-search-object-in-dashboard/95075/1 "2017-07-30T12:37:39Z")

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Hi, all

Here're my steps and questions (Kibana version 5.5.0):

1. save a search object from discovery.
2. create a dashboard, and select the search object above.
3. click the "expand" button below:

 ![kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/4/649d0ec46f2eeed4d9022eef3da5a163d8be4bc0.jpg)

1. save dashboard
2. close my browser, then re-open kibana web ui, click dashboard \> my saved dashboard above, found the view is in a small size in the upper left corner but not expanded, see below picture:

 ![kibana2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/3/137707fec0a06166adf9bc78f7b77a595f970447.jpg)

1. so my question is, is it possible to save the expanded view for search object in dashboard?

Thanks for the help.

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### Author: ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-save-expanded-view-for-search-object-in-dashboard/95075/2 "2017-07-31T13:53:59Z")

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Hi @Yong_Zhang,

saving the expansion state is not supported right now. If you want the the visualization to always take up the full width of the dashboard, I would suggest to just resize the visualization to take up all columns of the dashboard grid.

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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: [August 28, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-save-expanded-view-for-search-object-in-dashboard/95075/3 "2017-08-28T13:55:21Z")

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