# labelLimit doesn't work in legend update (Vega)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839 "2018-10-31T12:26:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Lidiya\_Chernova](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lidiya_Chernova)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/1 "2018-10-31T12:26:39Z")
Hi there!
I have an issue with length of legend labels, because my text doesn't go in the standart length and a command for widening doesn't work. Could you please give a reccomendation about how to use that command correctly.
I put it here:
"legends": [
{
"fill": "color",
"encode": {
"labels": {
"update": {
"labelLimit": {
"value": 300
},
...
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### Author:  [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/2 "2018-10-31T16:06:33Z")
@Lidiya_Chernova,
I don't believe Vega can truncate legends. I think that would be more of a question for that project to get details on it: [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vega-js](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vega-js).
Perhaps as a work-around, you could include a script-field in your Elasticsearch-query, where you do the truncation. For more info, see here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-script-fields.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-script-fields.html)
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### Author:  [@Lidiya\_Chernova](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lidiya_Chernova)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/3 "2018-11-01T08:53:05Z")
Hi @thomasneirynck! Thank you for your quick answer.
No, it's exact Vega does, because I have a legend with defined meanings which I set in scales:
```
{
"name": "color",
"type": "ordinal",
"domain": [
"число здоровых команд",
"число команд с отклонениями"
],
"range": [
"#11a74c",
"#ff0000"
]
}
```
As you see a phrase "число команд с отклонени **ями**" here is full.
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### Author:  [@Lidiya\_Chernova](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lidiya_Chernova)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/4 "2018-11-12T14:55:28Z")
Hi @nyuriks! Maybe you could help me with this issue?
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### Author:  [@nyuriks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nyuriks)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/5 "2018-11-12T15:46:45Z")
@Lidiya_Chernova to better help, could you provide a small example of a runnable Vega graph? This way if it is a bug in Vega itself, we could file a bug with them. The smaller your example, the easier it will be for everyone to understand the issue. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Lidiya\_Chernova](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lidiya_Chernova)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2018, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/6 "2018-11-13T09:34:13Z")
Ok, so what the best way to do it in a case when I use and transform data from Elastic indeces ( "url": {
"index": "metrics-data-\*", ...)?
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### Author:  [@nyuriks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nyuriks)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/7 "2018-11-14T17:31:49Z")
@Lidiya_Chernova could you provide a working Vega example (something very small but working), demonstrating the problem? Especially something that would work without any data in the [Vega editor](https://vega.github.io/editor/#/). It will be easier to show what to change in that example.
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### Author:  [@Lidiya\_Chernova](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lidiya_Chernova)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/8 "2018-11-19T09:18:03Z")
Ok, if i understood you correctly, here a Vega template example where I put the legend the way I do it in my visualizations. And there are also a limit on amount of legend labels.
{
"$schema": "[https://vega.github.io/schema/vega/v4.json](https://vega.github.io/schema/vega/v4.json)",
"width": 400,
"height": 200,
"padding": 5,
"data": [
{
"name": "table",
"values": [
{"category": "A", "amount": 28},
{"category": "B", "amount": 55},
{"category": "C", "amount": 43},
{"category": "D", "amount": 91},
{"category": "E", "amount": 81},
{"category": "F", "amount": 53},
{"category": "G", "amount": 19},
{"category": "H", "amount": 87}
]
}
],
"signals": [
{
"name": "tooltip",
"value": {},
"on": [
{"events": "rect:mouseover", "update": "datum"},
{"events": "rect:mouseout", "update": "{}"}
]
}
],
"scales": [
{
"name": "xscale",
"type": "band",
"domain": {"data": "table", "field": "category"},
"range": "width",
"padding": 0.05,
"round": true
},
{
"name": "yscale",
"domain": {"data": "table", "field": "amount"},
"nice": true,
"range": "height"
},
{
"name": "color",
"type": "ordinal",
"domain": [
"N командам назначены задачи по отклонениям",
"Количество чего-то по выбранной команде"
],
"range": [
"steelblue",
"red"
]
}
],
"axes": [
{ "orient": "bottom", "scale": "xscale" },
{ "orient": "left", "scale": "yscale" }
],
"marks": [
{
"type": "rect",
"from": {"data":"table"},
"encode": {
"enter": {
"x": {"scale": "xscale", "field": "category"},
"width": {"scale": "xscale", "band": 1},
"y": {"scale": "yscale", "field": "amount"},
"y2": {"scale": "yscale", "value": 0}
},
"update": {
"fill": {"value": "steelblue"}
},
"hover": {
"fill": {"value": "red"}
}
}
},
{
"type": "text",
"encode": {
"enter": {
"align": {"value": "center"},
"baseline": {"value": "bottom"},
"fill": {"value": "#333"}
},
"update": {
"x": {"scale": "xscale", "signal": "tooltip.category", "band": 0.5},
"y": {"scale": "yscale", "signal": "tooltip.amount", "offset": -2},
"text": {"signal": "tooltip.amount"},
"fillOpacity": [
{"test": "datum === tooltip", "value": 0},
{"value": 1}
]
}
}
}
],
"legends": [
{
"fill": "color",
"encode": {
"labels": {
"update": {
```
"fontSize": {
"value": 13
},
"font": {
"value": "Segoe UI, Helvetica, Open Sans, Arial"
},
"fill": {
"value": "#999"
}
},
"hover": {
"fill": {
"value": "firebrick"
}
}
},
"symbols": {
"update": {
"size": {"value": 80},
"shape": {"value": "square"}
}
},
"legend": {
"update": {
"stroke": {
"value": "#ccc"
},
"strokeWidth": {
"value": 0
}
}
}
},
"orient": "bottom"
}
```
]
}
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### Author:  [@Lidiya\_Chernova](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lidiya_Chernova)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/9 "2018-11-29T11:56:08Z")
@nyuriks can you help me with this problem, please?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labellimit-doesnt-work-in-legend-update-vega/154839/10 "2018-12-27T11:56:15Z")
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