# Kibana Dashboard Links for a PDF

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-links-for-a-pdf/262543>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-links-for-a-pdf/262543 "2021-01-28T18:13:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![teej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@teej](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teej)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-links-for-a-pdf/262543/1 "2021-01-28T18:13:42Z")

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Hi,  
I've created a dashboard in kibana (7.6.2) but wanted to edit the dashboard to include links to help PDFs that expalin how to use the dashboard. Question is...

> Is there a way to get the Dashboard links to bring up the PDFs as stored in the kibana server?

THank you.

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-links-for-a-pdf/262543/2 "2021-01-28T19:37:37Z")

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Kibana is not a web server, it doesn't include a functionality to host PDF files. You will need another web server (e.g. apache or nginx), make the pDFs available there, then link to them from Kibana. To put a link on a dashboard, use a markdown visualization as explained here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.10/edit-dashboards.html#add-markdown](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.10/edit-dashboards.html#add-markdown) It's basicallz just another type of visualization

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**Author:** ![teej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@teej](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teej)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-links-for-a-pdf/262543/3 "2021-01-28T21:07:12Z")

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Thank you flash1293.

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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 25, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-links-for-a-pdf/262543/4 "2021-02-25T21:07:23Z")

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