# Kibana 4 / Visualization Fields Subset

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-visualization-fields-subset/2176>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 9, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-visualization-fields-subset/2176 "2015-06-09T02:16:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mhughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@mhughes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mhughes)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-visualization-fields-subset/2176/1 "2015-06-09T02:16:34Z")

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Trying to build a line chart visualization off a saved search. When I selected Y-Axis -\> Average, I see the list of fields I can chose from. However, this appears to be a subset of all the available fields in the index. My index has quite a bit of fields (\> 200). It looks like Kibana is truncating this list.

Is this known issue?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-visualization-fields-subset/2176/2 "2015-06-09T02:29:26Z")

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It will only display values that it can map based on the graph type you are trying to build.  
eg if it was a map it'd only show fields that are mapped as geopoint.

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**Author:** ![mhughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@mhughes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mhughes)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-visualization-fields-subset/2176/3 "2015-06-09T12:39:23Z")

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Yeah that number of fields was a red herring. I have fields that only contain numeric values but are mapped as String so they didn’t show up. Guess I have to remap them.

Thanks.

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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, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-visualization-fields-subset/2176/4 "2017-07-06T14:18:23Z")

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