# Lots of empty fields in expanded document view

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lots-of-empty-fields-in-expanded-document-view/243271>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 30, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lots-of-empty-fields-in-expanded-document-view/243271 "2020-07-30T19:22:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![opoplawski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/opoplawski/32/40442_2.png) [@opoplawski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/opoplawski)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lots-of-empty-fields-in-expanded-document-view/243271/1 "2020-07-30T19:22:15Z")

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This behavior seems fairly new with a recent kibana or other update - when looking at the expanded document for an item in the discover list I see lots of empty fields.

 ![kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/9/193727c67b113cecd0198bd6c501b1e66a9c2d62.png)

Apparently these are “date\_time” fields that kibana adds to the “docvalue\_fields” parameter to queries:

```auto
"docvalue_fields": [
    {
      "field": "@timestamp",
      "format": "date_time"
    },
    {
      "field": "aws.cloudtrail.user_identity.session_context.creation_date",
      "format": "date_time"
    },
    {
      "field": "azure.auditlogs.properties.activity_datetime",
      "format": "date_time"
    },

```

There is some discussion of this here: [Kibana using docvalue\_fields for no apparent reason](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-using-docvalue-fields-for-no-apparent-reason/236333)

But I’m not sure why these fields are being displayed in the results.

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**Author:** ![Michiel\_Van\_Der\_Lee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michiel_van_der_lee/32/69970_2.png) [@Michiel\_Van\_Der\_Lee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michiel_Van_Der_Lee)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lots-of-empty-fields-in-expanded-document-view/243271/2 "2020-07-30T19:49:20Z")

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This has been marked as a bug: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/68672](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/68672)

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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:** [August 27, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lots-of-empty-fields-in-expanded-document-view/243271/3 "2020-08-27T19:49:26Z")

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