# Kibana dashboard weirdness **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 25, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-weirdness/48317 "2016-04-25T12:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-weirdness/48317/2 "2016-04-25T21:45:50Z")
Hi Yuval, Another user posted information today on they were able to successfully create visualizations outside Kibana. > [@How to put a visualization directly in Kibana/ElasticSearch?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-put-a-visualization-directly-in-kibana-elasticsearch/48325): > > Hello everyone, I tried something and I think it's worth sharing slight_smile I'm trying to write a script to automatically create a new dashboard according to a specific user (for that, it is the search that changes). More precisely, as a dashboard is made of visualizations, we need to create the visualizations in the first place. I was blocked at this step, creating the visualization directly via a CURL -XPOST request to ElasticSearch. Because in order to do the final dashboard, we need … Does this help? --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-weirdness/48317)._