# Regex pattern for field keyword

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-pattern-for-field-keyword/203627
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 15, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-pattern-for-field-keyword/203627 "2019-10-15T10:58:46Z")
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### Author: ![Pandikannan\_Jeyaprak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pandikannan_jeyaprak/32/55927_2.png) [@Pandikannan\_Jeyaprak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pandikannan_Jeyaprak)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-pattern-for-field-keyword/203627/1 "2019-10-15T10:58:47Z")

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is there any possible to use regex pattern for field keyword name in visualization.

Actually,

I need to make a graph having field name either a.transaction or b.transaction. can i make \*.transaction and plot a graph using kibana.. is there any possible?

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### Author: ![azasypkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/azasypkin/32/42216_2.png) [@azasypkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azasypkin)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-pattern-for-field-keyword/203627/2 "2019-10-15T11:52:11Z")

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Hi @Pandikannan_Jeyaprak,

I don't think you can do something like this through Visualization, but you can probably achieve something like this with a dedicated scripted field that would return value either of these fields depending on your use case, read more [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/scripted-fields.html).

Best,  
Oleg

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### Author: ![Pandikannan\_Jeyaprak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pandikannan_jeyaprak/32/55927_2.png) [@Pandikannan\_Jeyaprak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pandikannan_Jeyaprak)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-pattern-for-field-keyword/203627/3 "2019-10-16T01:55:40Z")

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Thanks for your reply @azasypkin.

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### Author: ![Pandikannan\_Jeyaprak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pandikannan_jeyaprak/32/55927_2.png) [@Pandikannan\_Jeyaprak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pandikannan_Jeyaprak)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-pattern-for-field-keyword/203627/4 "2019-10-16T03:27:54Z")

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> [@azasypkin](#):
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> return value either of th

> [@azasypkin](#):
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> dedicated scripted field

i tried to create a scripted field as  
return doc[/transaction/].value;

I got No match found error in field. Kindly suggest on this

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### Author: ![Pandikannan\_Jeyaprak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pandikannan_jeyaprak/32/55927_2.png) [@Pandikannan\_Jeyaprak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pandikannan_Jeyaprak)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-pattern-for-field-keyword/203627/5 "2019-10-16T12:07:18Z")

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@azasypkin : any luck for this 🙂

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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: [November 13, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-pattern-for-field-keyword/203627/6 "2019-11-13T12:07:30Z")

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