# Timelion not displaying data (yearly index)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-not-displaying-data-yearly-index/149394>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [September 21, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-not-displaying-data-yearly-index/149394 "2018-09-21T06:26:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vincent\_Maury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vincent_maury/32/59973_2.png) [@Vincent\_Maury](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vincent_Maury)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-not-displaying-data-yearly-index/149394/1 "2018-09-21T06:26:00Z")

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Hi there,  
I'm trying to use timelion to display data from an index "opencancer-colon" having 5k+ fields, 80k+ docs, and timestamp is a "year" field.  
Whatever I try, I only get a line at 0:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/6/b6750daaea002d51d5cad978040477927a7610a9.png)

However, in simple line chart, it does render wel...

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/f/7f20b25b64b4b7301aea757ca4113b384b5aad33.png)

Do you have any explanation?  
Thanks a lot in advance for your support,  
Vincent

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**Author:** ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-not-displaying-data-yearly-index/149394/2 "2018-09-21T20:49:07Z")

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Does it work if you add a `timefield=year` parameter to your `es` expression?

e.g. `.es(q=*,index=opencancer-colon,metric=avg:incidence,timefield=year).scale_interval(1y)`

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**Author:** ![Vincent\_Maury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vincent_maury/32/59973_2.png) [@Vincent\_Maury](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vincent_Maury)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-not-displaying-data-yearly-index/149394/3 "2018-09-30T21:41:38Z")

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Yes it worked!! many thanks Nick  
Weird I had to specify it (as i only have 1 time field)...

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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 28, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-not-displaying-data-yearly-index/149394/4 "2018-10-28T21:41:51Z")

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