# Kibana 5.1.2 short field name issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-1-2-short-field-name-issue/72083>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 18, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-1-2-short-field-name-issue/72083 "2017-01-18T20:25:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ram\_Vittal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Ram\_Vittal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ram_Vittal)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-1-2-short-field-name-issue/72083/1 "2017-01-18T20:25:25Z")

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We recently upgraded to ELK 5.1.2. Now we are seeing all field names in kibana discover getting automatically abbreviated to first letter for qualified names. For example, if the field name is name.first , it shows up as n.first.

This issue is even bigger when we use visualize section where drop down fields show n.f for name.first.

How do we retain the original field name in 5.1.2 version?

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-1-2-short-field-name-issue/72083/2 "2017-01-18T20:31:34Z")

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Hi Ram,  
There's a setting in Kibana you can get to from `Management > Advanced Settings` called `shortDots:enable`. It's false by default, but it sounds like someone set yours to true?

Regards,  
Lee

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**Author:** ![Ram\_Vittal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Ram\_Vittal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ram_Vittal)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-1-2-short-field-name-issue/72083/3 "2017-01-18T21:37:11Z")

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Thanks Lee. That worked.

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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:** [February 15, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-1-2-short-field-name-issue/72083/4 "2017-02-15T21:37:26Z")

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