# On the fly field formatting in kibana 4.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 22, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-the-fly-field-formatting-in-kibana-4-1/29750 "2015-09-22T06:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ankmathur14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@ankmathur14](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ankmathur14)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-the-fly-field-formatting-in-kibana-4-1/29750/1 "2015-09-22T06:33:30Z")
Is there any way in current version of kibana (or in any upcomimg releases) to format a field value from integer to string on the fly. Something like : My documents in Elastcsearch : {"OperatingSystem":1} {"OperatingSystem":2} {"OperatingSystem":3} Expecting documents in kibana : {"OperatingSystem":"Windows7"} {"OperatingSystem":"Windows8"} {"OperatingSystem":"Windows10"} I need some sort of mapping in kibana- 1 =\> Windows7 2 =\> Windows8 3 =\> Windows10 \*I dont want to change field values in logstash. \*Need to keep index as small as possible. Thanks in advanced. Any hint would be appreciated. Ankur Mathur ---
**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-the-fly-field-formatting-in-kibana-4-1/29750/2 "2015-09-26T04:39:46Z")
Not currently, but we're tracking an enhancement in this regard. Feel free to comment or +1. Btw, it's marked as "adoptme", which means that we'd love to see this as a community contribution! > ---
**Author:** ![ankmathur14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@ankmathur14](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ankmathur14)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-the-fly-field-formatting-in-kibana-4-1/29750/3 "2015-09-26T10:20:09Z")
Thanks for the info. It would be an excellent enhancement. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-the-fly-field-formatting-in-kibana-4-1/29750/4 "2017-07-06T14:12:24Z")