# Loosing Visualizations after refreshing kibana Index Pattern to add new fields! **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [November 18, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243 "2019-11-18T02:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243/1 "2019-11-18T02:24:28Z")
Hi, this seems to be a huge problem for me. I made some visualizations and dashboards using an index pattern. I refreshed the same index pattern because I created a new geo-point data type field. Hence had to refresh to add to the existing index pattern. By refreshing the index pattern I'm losing my old dashboards. Which leads to creating the visualizations again 😒😭 Any workaround? Kindly help, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243/2 "2019-11-18T21:27:27Z")
When you create the index pattern you can specify the unique ID of that index pattern. If you keep it consistent (by default it's set to random when you create an index pattern) when recreating the index pattern, there should be no problem with your visualizations and dashboards. ---
**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243/3 "2019-11-19T09:34:04Z")
> [@Marius\_Dragomir](#): > > When you create the index pattern you can specify the unique ID of that index pattern. Hi @Marius_Dragomir, how and where do I do this? Kindly help ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243/4 "2019-11-19T12:48:06Z")
In step 2 of the index pattern creation there is an "Advanced" toggle. That is where you can find the field to change the UUID. ---
**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243/5 "2019-11-20T05:00:32Z")
@Marius_Dragomir so here do I have to specify the name of the unique column from my data? ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243/6 "2019-11-20T18:29:41Z")
No, the uuid is an internal reference UUID in order to have unique names for index patterns. When you create an index pattern, it gets assigned an UUID. If you delete that index pattern and create it again it will have another UUID assigned, unless you specify it explicitly. ---
**Author:** ![Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ramya\_Tanikanti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramya_Tanikanti)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243/7 "2019-11-21T10:09:39Z")
Thank you @Marius_Dragomir ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/loosing-visualizations-after-refreshing-kibana-index-pattern-to-add-new-fields/208243/8 "2019-12-19T10:09:40Z")
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