# KIBANA:This field is present in your elasticsearch mapping but not in any documents in the search results. You may still be able to visualize or search on it

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-this-field-is-present-in-your-elasticsearch-mapping-but-not-in-any-documents-in-the-search-results-you-may-still-be-able-to-visualize-or-search-on-it/25903>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-this-field-is-present-in-your-elasticsearch-mapping-but-not-in-any-documents-in-the-search-results-you-may-still-be-able-to-visualize-or-search-on-it/25903 "2015-07-20T12:02:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![poonam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@poonam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/poonam)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-this-field-is-present-in-your-elasticsearch-mapping-but-not-in-any-documents-in-the-search-results-you-may-still-be-able-to-visualize-or-search-on-it/25903/1 "2015-07-20T12:02:14Z")

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I assed indexin seeting and it shows list of field.But in discover it shows as inactive filed and it gives message:  
This field is present in your elasticsearch mapping but not in any documents in the search results. You may still be able to visualize or search on it.  
Also it does not show any values its added in selected field

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-this-field-is-present-in-your-elasticsearch-mapping-but-not-in-any-documents-in-the-search-results-you-may-still-be-able-to-visualize-or-search-on-it/25903/2 "2015-07-20T12:59:38Z")

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This means the documents in the time range selected do not contain any values for the field in question - I'd go back and check that those fields got parsed and inserted correctly on ingest.

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**Author:** ![antonking](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/antonking/32/16009_2.png) [@antonking](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/antonking)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-this-field-is-present-in-your-elasticsearch-mapping-but-not-in-any-documents-in-the-search-results-you-may-still-be-able-to-visualize-or-search-on-it/25903/3 "2016-04-21T15:52:48Z")

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This is the worst framework i have worked with in years,, i highly doubt testing was done. Documentation is very poor , not fully tested. Am going to have to abandon the whole idea.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-this-field-is-present-in-your-elasticsearch-mapping-but-not-in-any-documents-in-the-search-results-you-may-still-be-able-to-visualize-or-search-on-it/25903/4 "2017-07-06T13:55:28Z")

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