# Kibana Drill-Down not working as expected

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drill-down-not-working-as-expected/228934
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drill-down-not-working-as-expected/228934 "2020-04-20T21:00:37Z")
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### Author: ![Paul\_Gege](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/paul_gege/32/45595_2.png) [@Paul\_Gege](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paul_Gege)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drill-down-not-working-as-expected/228934/1 "2020-04-20T21:00:37Z")

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Hi all, I have been playing around with making drill-downs however when I change the format for a field within my index to a URL, it directs me to the appropriate visualization but the query does not actually take place.

For example:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/c/0c54e7a883ecbc2563210360324a7d32ba37a313.png)

When I click "Male", it directs me to the following dashboard (which is the correct visualization but the query does not execute):

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/3/535959fe48bf4dd3d397116757672557b83e2c6d.png)

Realize that it populates the query input appropriately, however the graph is wrong because the query does not take effect (even if I click "Refresh").

But when I open up the same visualization and type out the same query manually and press "Refresh", I get the results I want:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/c/ecc5857008357a2e1ab25db8d830bf49f7447a7d.png)

My question is, why does my URL not automatically execute the query? Is there something i'm missing?

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### Author: ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drill-down-not-working-as-expected/228934/2 "2020-04-22T11:25:33Z")

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Hi @Paul_Gege, I assume you are using 7.6, right?

I've tested in 7.5.2, 7.6.2, and upcoming 7.7 and this only happens in 7.6.2 so I created [an issue](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/64163) in the Kibana github repo.

This is not specific to the URL template, you don't need to have that to test the problem, just copy the URL of the visualization with a query and reopen in a new tab and the query is not executed 😞.

Sorry for the inconvenience, please track the issue to get more details.

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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: [May 20, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drill-down-not-working-as-expected/228934/3 "2020-05-20T11:25:47Z")

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