# Markdown built from index data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-built-from-index-data/151861>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-built-from-index-data/151861 "2018-10-10T14:03:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![JoanSegura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@JoanSegura](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JoanSegura)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-built-from-index-data/151861/1 "2018-10-10T14:03:36Z")

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Hello, I'm trying to build a simple menu to jump from one dashboard to others. The source data (labels and links) of the menu are contained into an index, so menu will be created and modified from time to time.

is there a way to retrieve from an index using Markdown notation? Same as a recordset open() ... next() ... close() in JDBC, so I can build the menu from the index.

I will truly appreciate some examples. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-built-from-index-data/151861/2 "2018-10-11T11:00:00Z")

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@ppisljar / @timroes I looked for plugins and couldn't find any. Do you have ideas.

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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**Author:** ![timroes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timroes/32/19712_2.png) [@timroes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timroes)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-built-from-index-data/151861/3 "2018-10-15T08:14:06Z")

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Hi, you cannot use the classical markdown visualization. The issue you most likely want to follow in the Kibana repository is: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/12560](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/12560) which tracks the effort of drill down links.

Cheers,  
Tim

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**Author:** ![JoanSegura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@JoanSegura](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JoanSegura)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-built-from-index-data/151861/4 "2018-10-15T09:05:24Z")

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Thanks. I'll wait for drill down links, those seem to be the solution for my problem

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**Author:** ![JoanSegura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@JoanSegura](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JoanSegura)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-built-from-index-data/151861/5 "2018-10-15T09:05:55Z")

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Thanks. I'll wait for drill down links

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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:** [November 12, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-built-from-index-data/151861/6 "2018-11-12T09:05:55Z")

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