# How to Show Month names in Control Visualaization by Sorting
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-month-names-in-control-visualaization-by-sorting/241454
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 16, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-month-names-in-control-visualaization-by-sorting/241454 "2020-07-16T12:24:00Z")
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### Author:  [@jeeva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeeva)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-month-names-in-control-visualaization-by-sorting/241454/1 "2020-07-16T12:24:01Z")
Hi Team,
We have index with "Month" Field and it has all 12 Months value.
We are using Control Visualization to show all 12 months in Drop Down list but how to Sort all month values (like Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr..Dec).
Currently its showing scatter manner and its not in order by Month names.
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### Author:  [@Marta\_Bondyra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marta_Bondyra)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-month-names-in-control-visualaization-by-sorting/241454/2 "2020-08-11T18:33:17Z")
Hi @jeeva,
currently it's not possible. Here's the github issue open that you can track (and upvote to make it more visible) about ti: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17299](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17299)
Regards,
Marta
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-month-names-in-control-visualaization-by-sorting/241454/3 "2020-09-08T18:33:28Z")
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