# Kibana Vega-lite Row & Column Encoding Channels doesn't support parent-child type field

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-vega-lite-row-column-encoding-channels-doesnt-support-parent-child-type-field/134163
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 1, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-vega-lite-row-column-encoding-channels-doesnt-support-parent-child-type-field/134163 "2018-06-01T08:06:47Z")
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### Author: ![guanghaofan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/guanghaofan/32/31153_2.png) [@guanghaofan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guanghaofan)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-vega-lite-row-column-encoding-channels-doesnt-support-parent-child-type-field/134163/1 "2018-06-01T08:06:47Z")

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**hi, the vega-lite Row & Column Encoding Channels is able to support the nested type field, but the kibana vega does not.**

```
{
  "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v2.json",
  "data": {
    "name": "temperature",
      "values":[
        
   {
      "Name":"chevrolet chevelle malibu",
      "Miles_per_Gallon":18,
      "Cylinders":8,
      "Displacement":307,
      "Horsepower":130,
      "Weight_in_lbs":3504,
      "Acceleration":12,
      "Year":"1970-01-01",
      "Origin":{"Country": "USA"}
   },
   {
      "Name":"buick skylark 320",
      "Miles_per_Gallon":15,
      "Cylinders":8,
      "Displacement":350,
      "Horsepower":165,
      "Weight_in_lbs":3693,
      "Acceleration":11.5,
      "Year":"1970-01-01",
      "Origin":{"Country": "EU"}
   }
       
  ]
  },
  "mark": "bar",
  "encoding": {
    "x": {
      "bin": {"maxbins": 15},
      "field": "Horsepower",
      "type": "quantitative"
    },
    "y": {"aggregate": "count", "type": "quantitative"},
    "row": {"field": "Origin.Country", "type": "nominal"}
  },
  "config": {"axisY": {"minExtent": 30}}
}

```

 ![vega-lite-editor](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/8/9808b09d8a8b919274d047acbabe239346e9c967.png)

**and in the kibana vega, it shows error and can not access the field**  
 ![kibana-vega-lite](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/5/a5bffa7d6cb7bb345d2d0dd079f012cf5f1569a2.png)

**after change to flat field, it works fine**  
 ![kibana-vega-good](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/b/cbefede1b624bd378a04b9ea1a1f8db19859d4dd.png)

**BTW, the vega-lite tooltip also doesn't work in kibana-vega!**

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### Author: ![Bill\_McConaghy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-vega-lite-row-column-encoding-channels-doesnt-support-parent-child-type-field/134163/2 "2018-06-01T16:24:16Z")

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These should be filed as issues in the Kibana github repository:

> **[elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues)**
>
> kibana - :bar\_chart: Kibana analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch

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### Author: ![nyuriks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nyuriks/32/26171_2.png) [@nyuriks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nyuriks)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-vega-lite-row-column-encoding-channels-doesnt-support-parent-child-type-field/134163/3 "2018-06-05T20:35:37Z")

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This issue was resolved in [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/19642](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/19642)

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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 3, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-vega-lite-row-column-encoding-channels-doesnt-support-parent-child-type-field/134163/4 "2018-07-03T20:35:44Z")

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