# Is export/import of Saved Objects broken?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-export-import-of-saved-objects-broken/100958
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 19, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-export-import-of-saved-objects-broken/100958 "2017-09-19T05:33:00Z")
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### Author: ![Nikhil\_Utane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nikhil_utane/32/27547_2.png) [@Nikhil\_Utane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikhil_Utane)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-export-import-of-saved-objects-broken/100958/4 "2017-09-19T10:58:52Z")

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Thanks Mark. Yes, that's what it looks like.  
Couple of questions I had though:

1. Why did I get different pattern IDs (alias name vs auto generated ID) when I exported the same object twice?
2. How to view the auto-generated pattern ID? I couldn't find any way for this. If I could then i would have edited the json to use that instead.

-Thanks  
Nikhil

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