# Prevent dashboard from displaying data until value is specified in control?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-dashboard-from-displaying-data-until-value-is-specified-in-control/270195
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 15, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-dashboard-from-displaying-data-until-value-is-specified-in-control/270195 "2021-04-15T07:25:49Z")
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### Author: ![GrahamHannington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grahamhannington/32/4404_2.png) [@GrahamHannington](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GrahamHannington)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-dashboard-from-displaying-data-until-value-is-specified-in-control/270195/1 "2021-04-15T07:25:49Z")

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I have a control that selects "job name". I'd prefer for the dashboard to "wait" until the user has selected a value from that control. Is that possible in Kibana?

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### Author: ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-dashboard-from-displaying-data-until-value-is-specified-in-control/270195/2 "2021-04-15T07:36:09Z")

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This is not possible at the moment - there's a similar feature request here: [Add a "Required" option to control visualizations · Issue #87705 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/87705)

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### Author: ![GrahamHannington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grahamhannington/32/4404_2.png) [@GrahamHannington](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GrahamHannington)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-dashboard-from-displaying-data-until-value-is-specified-in-control/270195/3 "2021-04-15T07:44:05Z")

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Fair enough. I've developed dashboards on a few platforms, including Elastic and Splunk. In Splunk, controls set variables; visualizations rely on searches, which might refer to those variables; visualizations don't display data until the required variables are set.

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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: [May 13, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-dashboard-from-displaying-data-until-value-is-specified-in-control/270195/4 "2021-05-13T07:44:56Z")

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