# Permalink to a document on Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permalink-to-a-document-on-kibana/56373>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 26, 2016, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permalink-to-a-document-on-kibana/56373 "2016-07-26T09:33:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![mbagatini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@mbagatini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mbagatini)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permalink-to-a-document-on-kibana/56373/1 "2016-07-26T09:33:38Z")

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At the moment we have on Kibana that very useful link to a specific document.  
Is there a way to make that link always work regardless of the index state?

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**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:** [July 26, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permalink-to-a-document-on-kibana/56373/2 "2016-07-26T09:59:29Z")

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I don't believe so, but it's a great idea.  
Can you raise a feature request? [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues)

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**Author:** ![mbagatini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@mbagatini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mbagatini)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permalink-to-a-document-on-kibana/56373/3 "2016-07-26T10:06:07Z")

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I was trying to use a URL formatted String to make a call to knapsack in order to copy that document to another index, which would be a permanent one. Do you think that, or something similar, is possible?

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**Author:** ![mbagatini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@mbagatini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mbagatini)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permalink-to-a-document-on-kibana/56373/4 "2016-07-26T10:21:27Z")

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Issue raised:

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/7846>

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**Author:** ![mbagatini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@mbagatini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mbagatini)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permalink-to-a-document-on-kibana/56373/5 "2016-07-26T13:39:11Z")

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Hey Mark, what about this approach:

I'm trying to use a formatted url string to have a clickable link, with this template:

[http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.07.22/POST/\_reindex{"source":{"index":"logstash-2016.07.22","type":"log","query":{"term":{"thatId":{value}](http://localhost:9200/logstash-2016.07.22/POST/_reindex%7B%22source%22:%7B%22index%22:%22logstash-2016.07.22%22,%22type%22:%22log%22,%22query%22:%7B%22term%22:%7B%22thatId%22:%7Bvalue%7D)}}},"dest":{"index":"logstash-permalink","version\_type":"external"}}

where I would copy the query result to a permanent index. At the moment this is not working, the result is not copied and I get this Json on the browser as a response:

{"\_index":"logstash-2016.07.22","\_type":"POST","\_id":"\_reindex{"source":{"index":"logstash-2016.07.22","type":"log","query":{"term":{"thatId":"1234"}}},"dest":{"index":"logstash-permalink","version\_type":"external"}}","found":false}

what am I doing wrong?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permalink-to-a-document-on-kibana/56373/6 "2017-07-06T13:43:50Z")

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