# Pie chart - Field value alias name

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pie-chart-field-value-alias-name/49483>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 8, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pie-chart-field-value-alias-name/49483 "2016-05-08T11:31:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rotem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@Rotem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rotem)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pie-chart-field-value-alias-name/49483/1 "2016-05-08T11:31:38Z")

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Hi all,

I got a pie chart visualization as you can see, describing some id/count aggregation.  
Is it possible to show an alias instead of the id value? (both, legend and tooltip labels)  
for example, instead of:  
9 - "A"  
8 - "B"  
2 - "C"  
and so on...

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pie-chart-field-value-alias-name/49483/2 "2016-05-09T18:09:27Z")

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Rotem,

Currently you are only able to alias field names, not values. There are scripted fields, but they only support numeric outputs.

To achieve the desired outcome at this time you will need to index the data you wish to visualize.

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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, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pie-chart-field-value-alias-name/49483/3 "2017-07-06T13:53:58Z")

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