# Numeric field formatting (URL)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/numeric-field-formatting-url/127710>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/numeric-field-formatting-url/127710 "2018-04-12T01:17:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Robert\_Bardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Robert\_Bardo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robert_Bardo)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/numeric-field-formatting-url/127710/1 "2018-04-12T01:17:47Z")

</div>

Hello,

Is there an easy button to create my URL field formatting, instead of from the Kibana management console?

I am looking for a file I could edit to set the URL string to the field of my choosing . It will be the same field on all my index patterns. Then, somehow set it to create the same field formatting for every new index - or index pattern created?

(I am almost thinking along the lines of index mapping templates but we are talking Kibana here right?)

Thanks!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Robert\_Bardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Robert\_Bardo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robert_Bardo)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/numeric-field-formatting-url/127710/2 "2018-04-12T20:16:44Z")

</div>

is it stored in the .kibana index mapping???

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Bill\_McConaghy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/numeric-field-formatting-url/127710/3 "2018-04-16T12:31:26Z")

</div>

If you do this search against the Elasticsearch you have pointed Kibana at:

`GET .kibana/_search`

you will see that each index pattern is represented as a document in the .kibana index. In the source for any index pattern that has field formatters, you will see the property "fieldFormatMap". This map has entries for each field formatter. You could take the index patterns you want to update, add the proper fieldFormatMap to each, and then do an update of each document in Elasticsearch. Not exactly an easy button, but should be scriptable.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/numeric-field-formatting-url/127710/4 "2018-05-14T12:31:56Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.