# Searching indices when creating vis's returns 0 results
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-indices-when-creating-viss-returns-0-results/258158
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-indices-when-creating-viss-returns-0-results/258158 "2020-12-09T16:14:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Klaver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt_Klaver)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-indices-when-creating-viss-returns-0-results/258158/1 "2020-12-09T16:14:04Z")
Our index naming convention uses dashes (-) in the names, and when creating a visualization and searching through that list of indices that pops up we're able to search on anything before the dash, but once we add the dash in (even if we search on the full index name) it returns no results. Is this a config issue on our end or a limitation of Kibana in general?
Edit: Kibana 7.6 and 7.7 have the same issue, we've tried both.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-indices-when-creating-viss-returns-0-results/258158/2 "2021-01-06T16:14:06Z")
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