# Kibana data table issue
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-issue/192009
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-issue/192009 "2019-07-24T10:52:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@dharani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dharani)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-issue/192009/1 "2019-07-24T10:52:59Z")
How to display the text data in kibana data table without using metric like
eg:
Department|Floor
|DRM & ADRMs chambers||First
|Commercial Dept.|Ground|
|Operating Dept.|Ground|
if possible how? if not how should i do with a dashboards
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-issue/192009/2 "2019-07-24T19:33:53Z")
Hey @dharani, the Data Table visualization operates on "aggregations", hence why it's making you select a metric.
If you're looking to show individual documents, you can save your search in Discover and add it to a Dashboard. Otherwise, the [TSVB](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/TSVB.html)'s table visualization might satisfy your needs.
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### Author:  [@dharani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dharani)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-issue/192009/3 "2019-07-25T05:56:00Z")
Thank you!its Working
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### Author:  [@dharani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dharani)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-issue/192009/4 "2019-07-26T07:03:32Z")
I used save search in discovery and embedded the dashboard to application ,the table has the functionality expanded document it should be restricted to my client . 
note:during embedding to application we also used &embed =True end of the hyper link.
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### Author:  [@dharani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dharani)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-issue/192009/5 "2019-07-30T09:48:38Z")
Hello guys,
Any update about this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-table-issue/192009/6 "2019-08-27T09:48:40Z")
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