# Kibana - Visualize - Controls Option List - Date Sorting

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualize-controls-option-list-date-sorting/172842
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualize-controls-option-list-date-sorting/172842 "2019-03-18T18:02:37Z")
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### Author: ![tezkrishna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@tezkrishna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tezkrishna)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualize-controls-option-list-date-sorting/172842/1 "2019-03-18T18:02:37Z")

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Hi,

We are using Elastic 6.6 and Kibana 6.6. We indexed files into ES using bulk upload, and the data has a date field. We defined the mapping as date and also as keyword for the date field.

When we try to visualize using Controls and Options list in Kibana, we are not able to sort the date field in descending. We tried both the date type as well as keyword.

Please let us know how we can achieve this.

Note: How to sort a date field in Controls - Options List ?

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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: [April 15, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualize-controls-option-list-date-sorting/172842/2 "2019-04-15T18:02:38Z")

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