# String field shows up in Discovery but not in Visualize

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-field-shows-up-in-discovery-but-not-in-visualize/56653>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 28, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-field-shows-up-in-discovery-but-not-in-visualize/56653 "2016-07-28T16:15:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-field-shows-up-in-discovery-but-not-in-visualize/56653/2 "2016-08-03T17:44:43Z")

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When you say;

> [@Jon\_Slusher](#):
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> On the Discover page in kibana, I have a saved search with several hits

I'm assuming it's more than 4 hits?

If the default source limit in elasticsearch is 1000 characters (I'm not sure), why would you explicitly set that? I know I've done tests with string fields over 4000 characters long. Maybe 8000.

See See [Field maxlength?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-maxlength/45357)

Regards,  
Lee

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