"Saved field parameter is now invalid, please select a new field"

Does the index that this visualization points to contain data?

When you go to the Index Patterns section of Kibana, and select that index pattern, does the field that the visualization depends on show as searchable and aggregatable?

I assume that the answer to both of these questions is 'no', so we go back to my suggestion to seed the index. What I mean is, just make sure there is at least one document indexed into the index. The nature of your index/data will determine how you would accomplish that. You could go into Dev Tools and manually index a document, or make sure that however you are populating your index has processed and indexed some documents before attempting to view the visualization in Kibana.