# String values not showing up in Visualize 6.5

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-values-not-showing-up-in-visualize-6-5/200933>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-values-not-showing-up-in-visualize-6-5/200933 "2019-09-24T20:51:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwalls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jwalls](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jwalls)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-values-not-showing-up-in-visualize-6-5/200933/1 "2019-09-24T20:51:36Z")

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I am trying to get two string values to show up under visualize as well as 2 timestamp values. the two string fields needed are `site` and `klocker_app_name`.

to my knowledge, in order for a string to be visualized, it needs to be a keyword. After checking my index mappings, I see

```auto
 "klocker_app_name" : {
            "type" : "text",
            "fields" : {
              "keyword" : {
                "type" : "keyword",
                "ignore_above" : 256
              }
            }
          },

```

and

```auto
"site" : {
            "type" : "text",
            "fields" : {
              "keyword" : {
                "type" : "keyword",
                "ignore_above" : 256
              }
            }
          },

```

I see for a string to be in visualize it needs a .raw field as well, but it was to my knowledge that this is done dynamically

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-values-not-showing-up-in-visualize-6-5/200933/2 "2019-09-25T10:00:03Z")

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Hi @jwalls,

The mappings show that there is a text indexed field `klocker_app_name` and a keyword indexed field `klocker_app_name.keyword`. If you want to build visualizations using the terms aggregation, you can use the `klocker_app_name.keyword` field, your data is already correctly indexed for that.

You don't need a `.raw` field to visualize something, these names just come from different mappings - The important property is the type of a field.

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**Author:** ![jwalls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jwalls](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jwalls)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-values-not-showing-up-in-visualize-6-5/200933/3 "2019-09-25T17:00:32Z")

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Thank you, I realized I had to "refresh fields list" in the kibana management tab. as it was still only allowing `.raw` fields. Once I refreshed the list, it allowed `.keyword` fields.

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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:** [October 23, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-values-not-showing-up-in-visualize-6-5/200933/4 "2019-10-23T17:00:34Z")

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