# Kibana 4.1.1 pencil button not showing in indices page

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-1-pencil-button-not-showing-in-indices-page/28069
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 26, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-1-pencil-button-not-showing-in-indices-page/28069 "2015-08-26T06:44:46Z")
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### Author: ![Augustin\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Augustin\_Chen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Augustin_Chen)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2015, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-1-pencil-button-not-showing-in-indices-page/28069/1 "2015-08-26T06:44:46Z")

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I know field formatter is a new feature in kibana 4.1. I update the kibana from 4.0.2 to 4.1.1, but I don't see the pencil button in the indices page, so I am not able to format the field. Any ideas of it?

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/691230313f284af232c88578077b41f34026db92.jpg)  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/6bfe3abf9ff37cc50a486168949d39c635c6e9f2.jpg)

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### Author: ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-1-pencil-button-not-showing-in-indices-page/28069/2 "2015-08-27T04:31:05Z")

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Caching issue? Have you tried fully refreshing the page?

Here is what the Kibana 4.1.1 page looks like

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/3/3328fbec469e793050ac65302fb55957d8305a70.png)

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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: [July 6, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-1-pencil-button-not-showing-in-indices-page/28069/3 "2017-07-06T14:14:11Z")

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