# Saved Search display specific nested field as a column **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 16, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-search-display-specific-nested-field-as-a-column/195480 "2019-08-16T11:15:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![theflyingcarpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@theflyingcarpet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theflyingcarpet)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-search-display-specific-nested-field-as-a-column/195480/1 "2019-08-16T11:15:14Z")
The current behaviour when displaying a nested field is to display the complete sub-document as the column e.g. `{"field1": "value1", "field2": "value2"}` How can we flatten this to display the fields as separate columns? I'm thinking that we'd just use the dot notation to target the field e.g. sub-document.field1 would just display the content of field1 cleanly. I tried editing the saved object where the list of columns are, to add a column with the dot notation and tantalisingly, it returned the column name but didn't populate the values. Is this something that will work with the correct syntax? BTW, if the answer is that Kibana doesn't support nested fields, how can we add this as a request to be implemented? ---
**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-search-display-specific-nested-field-as-a-column/195480/2 "2019-08-16T16:12:37Z")
Hello, Can you please request this enhancement here? > **[elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues)** > > Your window into the Elastic Stack. Contribute to elastic/kibana development by creating an account on GitHub. @Bargs do you have any inputs? Thanks, Bhavya ---
**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-search-display-specific-nested-field-as-a-column/195480/3 "2019-08-16T22:18:48Z")
We don't support nested fields in Kibana yet. You can subscribe to this issue for any updates: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1084](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1084) ---
**Author:** ![theflyingcarpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@theflyingcarpet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theflyingcarpet)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-search-display-specific-nested-field-as-a-column/195480/4 "2019-08-19T06:50:39Z")
I guess I was hoping there might be a trick to have it work without the full support for nested fields or that just this part could be easily added. I've subscribed to the issue (which I see has been on the backlog forever). ---
**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-search-display-specific-nested-field-as-a-column/195480/5 "2019-08-19T15:29:37Z")
There's a community plugin you might find helpful in the meantime: [https://ppadovani.github.io/knql\_plugin/overview/](https://ppadovani.github.io/knql_plugin/overview/) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-search-display-specific-nested-field-as-a-column/195480/6 "2019-09-16T15:29:42Z")
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