# ML Job - Edit JSON vs Create with gui? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\ **Created:** [May 24, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-job-edit-json-vs-create-with-gui/133175 "2018-05-24T14:44:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jc034240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jc034240](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jc034240)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-job-edit-json-vs-create-with-gui/133175/1 "2018-05-24T14:44:26Z")
Does anyone know of a way through Kibana to create an ML job via JSON (vs going through gui), or editing the JSON after the ML job is created? ---
**Author:** ![jc034240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jc034240](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jc034240)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-job-edit-json-vs-create-with-gui/133175/2 "2018-05-24T14:53:10Z")
I think I answered my own question and believe this can be done with the Create Data Feeds and Jobs API. ---
**Author:** ![JKhondhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@JKhondhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JKhondhu)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-job-edit-json-vs-create-with-gui/133175/3 "2018-05-24T17:18:04Z")
hope this helps further [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-put-job.html#\_examples\_20](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-put-job.html#_examples_20) [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/ml-limitations.html#\_jobs\_created\_in\_kibana\_must\_use\_datafeeds](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/ml-limitations.html#_jobs_created_in_kibana_must_use_datafeeds) ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-job-edit-json-vs-create-with-gui/133175/4 "2018-10-30T22:21:35Z")