# How to set visualization/search id when importin via curl? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [May 17, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-visualization-search-id-when-importin-via-curl/132300 "2018-05-17T09:51:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yishain11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/df705f/32.png) [@yishain11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yishain11)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-visualization-search-id-when-importin-via-curl/132300/1 "2018-05-17T09:51:35Z")
Hi! I have visualization and a search that I want to import with a dashboard into kibana. When I send them just as I saved them after exporting them from their original kibana index, I get an error that the fields "\_id" and "\_source" are not allowed. When I send the visualization and the search after removing all the problematic fields and adding "attributes" field it works, but when I import the dashboard there is a a problem: the dashboard needs the visualization and the search new id's to work. Because I can't set the id just by sending it in curl, I thought about just getting the new id from the response of the import curl. Is there a better way to set the new id beforehand so I woun't need to hassle with it? Plus, I saw this post from Joe Fleming in [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-copy-a-dashboard-and-its-associated-visulizations/94311/12) feed: > Read the dashboard (a GET operation by ID) > Read the visualizations on it (an MGET here) > **Make a new copy of the visualizations, setting a new ID (the ID can be anything, Kibana just uses a UUID by default, you can do the same)** > Make a new copy of the dashboard as above, and also change the IDs of the visualizations in it to the copies you just created So implicitly I see there is a way to set visualization/search id before importing them. What is that way? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-visualization-search-id-when-importin-via-curl/132300/2 "2018-05-17T19:29:30Z")
Instead of talking to ES directly, I would suggest trying Kibana's [Saved Object API](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/11632). ---
**Author:** ![yishain11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/df705f/32.png) [@yishain11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yishain11)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-visualization-search-id-when-importin-via-curl/132300/3 "2018-05-21T06:20:34Z")
Sorry, I miswrote. I send via the saved object api, and not to kibana directly. ---
**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-visualization-search-id-when-importin-via-curl/132300/4 "2018-05-23T20:51:34Z")
You can specify the id as the last part of the URL path. So if I wanted to create an index pattern with id `foo`, I could do: ```auto POST /api/saved_objects/index-pattern/foo ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-visualization-search-id-when-importin-via-curl/132300/5 "2018-06-20T20:51:40Z")
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