# Importing dashboards to Kibana 6.1.1 from earlier versions **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 5, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-dashboards-to-kibana-6-1-1-from-earlier-versions/114267 "2018-01-05T10:01:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![garin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e36b37/32.png) [@garin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/garin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-dashboards-to-kibana-6-1-1-from-earlier-versions/114267/1 "2018-01-05T10:01:33Z")
I tried to import a dashboard to kibana 6.1.1 from kibana 6.0.0. This failed because kibana 6.1.1 had problems recognising keywords. E.g. 6.0.0 uses this type of format for the export file "field":"pilotName.keyword" I manually edited the export file to use this format "field":"pilotName" ( so removing ".keyword" ) This seems to fix the problem and the dashboard imported successfully and seems to function properly. I thought I'd report this as it appears to be a bug. It might also help someone else. Other than that the installation of 6.1.1 is working very nicely thanks. ---
**Author:** ![dsnider](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dsnider/32/44068_2.png) [@dsnider](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dsnider)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-dashboards-to-kibana-6-1-1-from-earlier-versions/114267/2 "2018-01-05T17:26:57Z")
Thanks for the report @garin. I'll pass it along to our team. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-dashboards-to-kibana-6-1-1-from-earlier-versions/114267/3 "2018-02-02T17:27:03Z")
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