# "?" next to field in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/next-to-field-in-kibana/123591>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 12, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/next-to-field-in-kibana/123591 "2018-03-12T16:12:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@tomak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomak)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/next-to-field-in-kibana/123591/1 "2018-03-12T16:12:15Z")

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I had a document with a few fields and wanted to add a field "country" to it. So I did the following:

```
POST /test_vendeur/vendeur/1/_update?pretty
{
   "doc": {"pays": "France"}
}

```

Now next to my field "pays", there is a question mark and I can't do any searches on it. Is there any way of changing this?

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/next-to-field-in-kibana/123591/2 "2018-03-12T17:15:17Z")

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Hey @tomak, where are you seeing the question mark? When you insert strings into Elasticsearch by default it stores a "text" and a "keyword" field for your string, [https://www.elastic.co/blog/strings-are-dead-long-live-strings](https://www.elastic.co/blog/strings-are-dead-long-live-strings) does a good job explaining why. You'll be able to do a full-text search against the "text" field and you can do terms aggregations/etc. against the "keyword" field.

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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:** [April 9, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/next-to-field-in-kibana/123591/3 "2018-04-09T17:15:30Z")

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