# Times

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/times/80360
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/times/80360 "2017-03-28T19:49:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Xareni\_Bonilla](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xareni_bonilla/32/16700_2.png) [@Xareni\_Bonilla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Xareni_Bonilla)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/times/80360/1 "2017-03-28T19:49:05Z")

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I want create an index in kibana with broadsoft  
When I try and create a new index pattern and click on "Index contains time-based events", the 'Time-field name' dropdown doesn't contain anything.

Can you help me please.

The error is

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/4/44e289076da2f127b6dd9edeac291d05b9eb0fe6.png)

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### Author: ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/times/80360/2 "2017-03-28T21:57:44Z")

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It could be that the index has no fields that are mapped as a date field.

If you want to see the mapping, try `GET my_index/_mapping` in Dev Tools Console. If you don't see any fields that are date type, then that is why no time-fields appear in the dropdown when you try to create an index pattern.

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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: [April 25, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/times/80360/3 "2017-04-25T21:57:52Z")

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